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Science Fiction : Stories and Contexts by Heather Masri (2008, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherBedford/Saint Martin's

ISBN-10031245015X

ISBN-139780312450151

eBay Product ID (ePID)7038296313

Product Key Features

Book TitleScience Fiction : Stories and Contexts

Number of Pages1248 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicScience Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Science Fiction / General

GenreFiction

AuthorHeather Masri

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight47.8 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2008-923372

Table Of ContentPrefaceChronological ContentsAlternative Thematic Contents A Brief Introduction to Science Fiction and Its HistoryA Selective Guide to Science Fiction Research 1. Alien EncountersH.G. Wells, fromThe War of the Worlds(1898)Stanley G. Weinbaum,A Martian Odyssey(1934)Fredric Brown,Arena(1944)Ray Bradbury,Mars Is Heaven!(1948)Sonya Dorman,When I Was Miss Dow(1966)Ursula K. Le Guin,Vaster Than Empires and More Slow(1971)Octavia E. Butler,Bloodchild(1984)Greg Egan,Wang's Carpets(1995)Michael Swanwick,Slow Life(2002)Critical Contexts for Alien Encounters Simone de Beauvoir, fromThe Second Sex(1949) Carl Gustav Jung,The Shadow(1951) Frantz Fanon,The Fact of Blackness(1952) 2. Artificial LifeE.T.A. Hoffmann,The Sandman(1816)Mary Shelley, fromFrankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus(1818; 1831)Karel Capek,R.U.R.(1921)Isaac Asimov,Liar!(1941)Philip K. Dick,Second Variety(1953)Kate Wilhelm, "Baby, You Were Great!" (1967)James Tiptree, Jr.,The Girl Who Was Plugged In(1973)William Gibson,Burning Chrome(1985)Maureen McHugh,Nekropolis(1994)Ken Liu,The Algorithms for Love(2004)Critical Contexts for Artificial Life Sigmund Freud,The Uncanny(1919; 1924) Jean Baudrillard,The Precession of Simulacra(1981) Donna J. Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985; 1991) 3. TimeJules Verne,Master Zacharius(1854)Miles J. Breuer,The Gostak and the Doshes(1930)C.L. Moore,Vintage Season(1946)Robert A. Heinlein, "All You Zombies - " (1959)Robert Silverberg,When We Went to See the End of the World(1972)Kim Stanley Robinson,The Lucky Strike(1984)Connie Willis,At the Rialto(1989)Ted Chiang,Story of Your Life(1998)Benjamin Rosenbaum,Start the Clock(2004)Critical Contexts on Time Jean-Paul Sartre, fromBeing and Nothingness(1943) Edward Hallett Carr,The Historian and His Facts(1961) Michio Kaku,To Build a Time Machine(1994) 4. Utopias and DystopiasYevgeny Zamyatin, fromWe(1921)A.E. van Vogt,The Weapon Shop(1942)Damon Knight,Country of the Kind(1955)Harlan Ellison,"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman(1965)Joanna Russ,When It Changed(1972)John Varley,The Persistence of Vision(1978)Mike Resnick,Kirinyaga(1988)Geoff Ryman,Dead Space for the Unexpected(1994)Nalo Hopkinson,Something to Hitch Meat to(2001)Critical Contexta for Utopias and Dystopias rley

SynopsisExcellent collections of science fiction abound, but very few have been prepared expressly for classroom use. Heather Masri, editor of "Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts," has prepared an anthology that recognizes, and is designed to meet, the needs of students and instructors in an introductory survey course in science fiction. Grouped into major themes, her comprehensive selection of fiction -- enjoyable and captivating stories, notable for their literary, philosophical, and cultural richness -- are by classic and emerging writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The stories are uniquely complemented by contextual documents that suggest the scholarly, theoretical, and historical currents that drove the development of the genre, and informative editorial matter that contributes to the book's flexibility for instructors and usefulness for students.

LC Classification NumberPN3433.5.S325 2009