Companion To Science Fiction, Hardcover by Seed, David (EDT), Like New Used
Companion To Science Fiction, Hardcover by Seed, David (EDT), ISBN 1405112182, ISBN-13 9781405112185, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK In a reader that demonstrates the broad scope of science fiction and includes both novels and films, Seed American literature, U. Of Liverpool, UK compiles 41 essays by international authors, including coverage of general topics as well as specific authors and works in English. Initial essays covering the history of the genre are followed by discussion of topics often explored within the genre such as utopia, religion, gothic science fiction, ecology, feminism, and the Cold War.
The section on genres includes essays on hard science fiction, new wave, cyberpunk, and postmodernism. Although Seed narrows the primary focus of this reader to works in English, a section is devoted to Canadian, Asian, and Australian science fiction.
Essays on specific writers like Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Le Guin, are followed by analyses of specific works by Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, Mary Shelley, and Aldous Huxley, among others.