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A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range ofscholars which discuss the contexts themes and methods used by science fictionwriters. It conveys the scale and variety of science fiction and also shows howscience fiction novels have been used as a means of debating cultural issues.The first section of the volume addresses general topics such as the historyand origins of the genre its engagement with science and gender and nationalvariations of science fiction around the Englishspeaking world. It also mapsout connections between science fiction television the cinema virtualreality technology and other aspects of the culture. The next section isdevoted to major figures such as H.G. Wells Arthur C. Clarke and Ursula LeGuin. Finally the Companion offers close discussions of key novels from MaryShelleys Frankenstein to Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale. «
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