The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

Whether its origins are dated to antiquity, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, the romances of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, or the pulp magazines of the 1920s, science fiction (sf) has a long history. This new title in the Routledge Companion series is an outstanding overview of both the development and the study of the genre. Bould and his co‐editors “aim to bring into dialogue” some of the many perspectives on sf “without striving to resolve this multiplicity into a single image or a simple story of its history and meaning”. The result is a near‐masterpiece of economy, which...