...[a] useful addition to your professional library...Speculations on Speculation could be a part of an excellent course of essential reading on the genre and theory of sf.--Science Fiction Studies
This varied and balanced survey will be of greatest value to veteran readers of SF and especially to teachers and would-be-critics of SF.--Science Fiction Research Association Review
Writers and critics of science fiction discuss the genre and its elements in 24 reprinted articles and essays on identification, location, derivation, excavation, infatuation, and anticipation. Among the offerings are Ursula K. Le Guin on science fiction and Mrs. Brown, Brian W. Aldiss and David Wingrove on Mary Shelley and the origin of the species, Samuel R. Delany on some presumptuous approaches to science fiction, and Michael Swanwick with a user's guide to the postmoderns.--Reference and Research Book News
9780810849020
Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction / Edition 1 available in Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 081084902X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780810849020
- Pub. Date:
- 12/08/2004
- Publisher:
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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ISBN-13: | 9780810849020 |
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Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
Publication date: | 12/08/2004 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 400 |
Product dimensions: | 6.42(w) x 8.48(h) x 0.81(d) |