The Science Fiction Handbook

As we move through the 21st century, the importance of science fiction to the study of English Literature is becoming increasingly apparent. The Science Fiction Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the genre and how to study it for students new to the field. In particular, it provides detailed entries on major writers in the SF field who might be encountered on university-level English Literature courses, ranging from H.G. Wells and Philip K. Dick, to Doris Lessing and Geoff Ryman. Other features include an historical timeline, sections on key writers, critics and critical terms, and case studies of both literary and critical works. In the later sections of the book, the changing nature of the science fiction canon and its growing role in relation to the wider categories of English Literature are discussed in depth introducing the reader to the latest critical thinking on the field.>

About the author

Nick Hubble is Professor of Modern and Contemporary English at Brunel University London, UK and the co-editor of The Science Fiction Handbook (2013), The 1970s (2014), The 1990s (2015), The 2000s (2015), The 1950s (2018), The 1930s (2021), The 2010s (2024) and London in Contemporary British Fiction (2016) all published by Bloomsbury.Aris Mousoutzanis is Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies, University of Brighton, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Nick Hubble, Hubble Nick, Aris Mousoutzanis
• Assisted by: Dr Nick (Brunel University Hubble (Editor), Nick Hubble (Editor), Nick (Brunel University Hubble (Editor), Aris Mousoutzanis (Editor), Dr Aris Mousoutzanis (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.11.2013
• EAN: 9781441170965
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-7096-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Literature and Culture Handbooks; Literature and Culture Handboo; Literature and Culture Handbooks; Literature and Culture Handboo
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies