The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of thehistory and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers movements andtexts ... » 

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of thehistory and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers movements andtexts in the genre established critical approaches and areas for future study.Fiftysix entries by a team of renowned international contributors are dividedinto four parts which look in turn at History an integrated chronologicalnarrative of the genres development Theory detailed accounts of majortheoretical approaches including feminism Marxism psychoanalysis culturalstudies postcolonialism posthumanism and utopian studies Issues andChallenges anticipates future directions for study in areas as diverse asscience studies music design environmentalism ethics and alterity Subgenres a prismatic view of the genre tracing themes and developments withinspecific subgenres Bringing into dialogue the many perspectives on the genreThe Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is essential reading for anyoneinterested in the history and the future of science fiction and the way it istaught and studied. «