Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction

The excitement of possible futures found in science fiction has long fired the human imagination, but the genre's acceptance by academe is relatively recent. No longer marginalized and fighting for respectability, science-fictional works are now studied alongside more traditional art forms. Tracing the capacious genre's birth, evolution, and impact across nations, time periods, subgenres, and media, The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction offers an in-depth, comprehensive assessment of this robust area of scholarly inquiry and considers the future directions that will dictate the terms of the scholarly discourse.

The Handbook begins with a focus on questions of genre, covering topics such as critical history, keywords, narrative, the fantastic, and fandom. A subsequent section on media engages with film, television, comics, architecture, music, video games, and more. The genre's role in the convergence of art and everyday life animates a third section, which addresses topics such as UFOs,


Author: Rob Latham
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/01/2014
Pages: 640
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.50lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.00w x 2.10d
ISBN: 9780199838844

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2015 pg. 1308

About the Author

Rob Latham is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption and a senior editor of the journal Science Fiction Studies.

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