186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 2002. This volume is about Science Fiction, its criticisms and teaching and covers the rise of science-fiction as a study and genre, looking at the work of H.G Wells, and the themes of epic, fable, language, cultures, its sociology, as a romance, and of a working daydream.
Chapter 1 Working Daydreams, Workshop Definitions; Chapter 2 The Sociology of the Genre; Chapter 3 Science Fiction as Romance; Chapter 4 Science Fiction as Fable; Chapter 5 Science Fiction as Epic; Chapter 6 Imitation and Novelty; Chapter 7 The Science-Fiction Course;
Biography
Patrick Parrinder
