The Science Fiction Handbook

“Realist fiction sets out to describe the world; science fiction (SF) sets out to change it” writes Hubble in his introduction to this book, and is it perhaps the former direction in which this work leans. The book is designed to present an overview of the history of both literary SF and scholarly analysis of the same, while acknowledging the debt cinema owes to it as well. The anticipated readership is clearly those engaging at an undergraduate level in the literary analysis of the SF genre. As such, the work is written so as to be accessible to non-specialists, although...