{"product_id":"science-fiction-new-critical-idiom","title":"Science Fiction (New Critical Idiom)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Science Fiction (New Critical Idiom) (Paperback, 176 pages) – Routledge, 2005. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eScience Fiction is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its practice and its critical reception. With an entirely new conclusion and all other chapters fully reworked and updated, this volume includes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea concise history of science fiction and the ways in which the genre has been used and defined\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eexplanations of key concepts in Science Fiction criticism and theory through chapters such as Gender, Race, Technology and Metaphor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eexamines the interactions between Science Fiction and Science Fact\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eanchors each chapter with a case study drawn from short story, book or film, from Frank Herbert's Dune to Star Wars, from The Left Hand of Darkness to Neuromancer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroducing the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New Wave, Feminist and Cyberpunk science fictions, this is the essential contemporary guide to a major cultural movement.\u003c\/p\u003e  \n\n                                         Editorial Reviews                   About the Author   Adam Roberts is Professor of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. His SF novel Salt (Gollancz, 2000) was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. His second novel, On (Gollancz, 2001), is now available.                                           ","brand":"Adam Roberts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46071139926250,"sku":"9780415366687","price":38.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/51rrNYDuTNL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781285809","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/science-fiction-new-critical-idiom","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}