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Guangzhao Lyu
This book compares the recent science fiction renaissances in the UK and China, known as the British and Chinese SF Booms, which emerged in the late 1980s. Emphasizing the <>…
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Gerry Canavan
I began writing about power because I had so little, Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler’s life as an African American woman–an alien in American society and among science fiction…
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Essays exploring the relationship between environmental disaster and visions of apocalypse through the lens of science fiction
This Companion explores the relationship between American science fiction and its roots in the American cultural experience. Essays address not only the history of science fiction in America but also…
Global in perspective and transmedia in approach, The Cambridge History of Science Fiction provides the first comprehensive history of science fiction literature, film, television, and culture from its ancient and…
Octavia Butler
The definitive edition of the complete works of the grand dame of American science fiction begins with gathering two novels and the complete stories in one volume for the first…
Darko Suvin
Back in print for the first time since the 1980s, this book is a touchstone for literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Alongside the 1979 text…
This collection grapples with the historical, cultural, aesthetic, and political-economic implications of the relationship between media franchising and transmedia storytelling as they are seen at work in the world’s most…
This handbook illustrates the evolution of literature and science, in collaboration and contestation, across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The essays it gathers question the charged rhetoric that pits science…
