Introduction: Reading science fiction

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-12

  Mendlesohn, Farah ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84928861932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CCOL0521816262.001     Document Type: Editorial

References (8)

1. Russell Letson, Locus, May 2002, pp. 37, 61;
2. David Nye, The American Technological Sublime (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984), pp. 14-15.
3. John Clute, Introduction to Galactic Patrol, Gray Lensman, Second Stage Lensman, Children of the Lens, by E. E. Smith (Baltimore, MD: Old Earth Books, 1998), pp. xii-xiii.
4. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr, 'On the Grotesque in Science Fiction', Science-Fiction Studies 29 (2002), pp. 71-99.
5. Darko Suvin, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979), p. 63.
6. William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984) (London: Grafton, 1986), p. 9.
7. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (London: Gollancz, 1974), p. 5.
8. 'The Lonely Planet' (1949), in J.J. Pierce, ed., The Best of Murray Leinster (New York: Del Rey, 1978), pp. 274-307.