Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science FictionJames E. Gunn, Matthew Candelaria Scarecrow Press, 2005 - 374 halaman Science fiction is a field of literature that has great interest and great controversy among its writers and critics. This book examines the roots, history, development, current status, and future directions of the field through articles contributed by well-respected science fiction writers, teachers, and critics. The articles 'speculate' on what is science fiction, is science fiction serious literature, which writers are considered good science fiction writers, and where the genre of science fiction is headed with 21st-century writers. Contributors include Brian W. Aldiss, Kathryn Cramer, Samuel R. Delany, David G. Hartwell, Ursula K. Le Guin, Barry N. Malzberg, Darko Suvin, Michael Swanwick, and many other outstanding authors. Examining all genres and subgenres of science fiction writing, this book provides differing viewpoints on science fiction, making it a great basis for dynamic classroom discussions. |
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Toward a Definition of Science Fiction | 5 |
Coming to Terms | 13 |
Estrangement and Cognition | 23 |
The Number of the Beast | 37 |
On the Origins of Genre | 41 |
LOCATION | 55 |
SF and the Genological Jungle | 59 |
The Readers of Hard Science Fiction | 81 |
Some Notes toward the True and the Terrible | 239 |
Wrong Rabbit | 243 |
The Field and the Wave The History of New Worlds | 247 |
Space Opera Redefined | 259 |
INFATUATION | 267 |
The Golden Age of Science Fiction Is Twelve | 269 |
Some Presumptuous Approaches to Science Fiction | 289 |
Touchstones | 301 |
Science Fiction and Literature or The Conscience of the King | 95 |
Science Fiction and Mrs Brown | 119 |
I Could Have Been a Contender | 141 |
DERIVATIONS | 145 |
Introduction to Trillion Year Spree | 147 |
On the Origin of Species Mary Shelley | 163 |
The Roots of Science Fiction | 205 |
Science Fiction and the Dimension of Myth | 219 |
EXCAVATION | 235 |
ANTICIPATION | 311 |
A Users Guide to the Postmoderns | 313 |
Science Fiction without the Future | 331 |
Slipstream | 343 |
Bibliography | 353 |
Index | 363 |
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