Overview :In this unprecedented collection of science fiction and fantasy quotations, the reader revisits the stunning moment when Mary Shelley's Fran... Read More
Overview :The leading figure in the development of cyberpunk, William Gibson (born in 1948) crafted works in which isolated humans explored near-futur... Read More
Overview :Filmmakers employ various images to suggest the strangeness of outer space, but protective spacesuits most powerfully communicate its danger... Read More
Overview :Already renowned for his science fiction and scientific nonfiction, Arthur C. Clarke became the world's most famous science fiction writer a... Read More
Overview :This book gathers together many of the illuminating essays on science fiction and fantasy film penned by a major critic in the SF field. The... Read More
Overview :Science fiction occupies a peculiar place in the academic study of literature. For decades, scholars have looked at science fiction with dis... Read More
Overview :Although the exploration of space has long preoccupied authors and filmmakers, the development of an actual space program, discoveries about... Read More
Overview :Pilgrim Award-winning critic Gary Westfahl here updates his classic study of the space station theme in science fiction, providing the most ... Read More
Overview :This book, for the first time, makes available a body of my work that has long remained inaccessible and largely unknown to American readers... Read More
Overview :With our lives firmly controlled by the steady pace of time, humans have yearned for ways to escape its constraints, and authors have respon... Read More
Overview :A companion volume to the author's Island in the Sky, this new book covers 975 science fiction novels, stories, films, and television progra... Read More