This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to formulate a critical history, connects the major developments with the rise of theoretical paradigms such as feminism and postmodernism, and introduces key critical texts and major critics.
Brian Baker is Lecturer in English at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Masculinities in Fiction and Film and co-author of Literature and Science: Social Impact and Interaction.
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Introduction1. Definitions2. A History of the Histories3. Science Fiction Writers on Science Fiction4. The British Tradition5. The US Tradition6. Utopias and Dystopias7. Feminism, Science Fiction and Cyberpunk8. Science Fiction and CinemaConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.