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- catalog abstract "Brooks Landon's Science Fiction after 1900 samples a wide range of science fiction writing in the United States, England, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union, with a special focus on the development of genre SF written explicitly for science fiction markets and science fiction readers. This study, intended as a point of departure for readers, students, teachers, or scholars interested in exploring science fiction, offers on overview of the broad historical and. Theoretical concerns that have marked the phenomenal growth of this genre in the twentieth century. Landon analyzes the genre of science fiction not as a set of rules for writers but as a set of expectations for readers - more an epistemology or attitude toward life than a set of formal characteristics. Landon presents science fiction as a social phenomenon, a set of expectations about the future that moves beyond literary experience through a sense of mission based on. The assumption that SF can be a "tool to help you think." He offers a broad overview of the stages through which SF has developed in the twentieth century as well as of the large body of criticism now devoted to this genre.".
- catalog contributor b10376258.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Brooks Landon's Science Fiction after 1900 samples a wide range of science fiction writing in the United States, England, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union, with a special focus on the development of genre SF written explicitly for science fiction markets and science fiction readers. This study, intended as a point of departure for readers, students, teachers, or scholars interested in exploring science fiction, offers on overview of the broad historical and.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-242) and index.".
- catalog description "The assumption that SF can be a "tool to help you think." He offers a broad overview of the stages through which SF has developed in the twentieth century as well as of the large body of criticism now devoted to this genre.".
- catalog description "Theoretical concerns that have marked the phenomenal growth of this genre in the twentieth century. Landon analyzes the genre of science fiction not as a set of rules for writers but as a set of expectations for readers - more an epistemology or attitude toward life than a set of formal characteristics. Landon presents science fiction as a social phenomenon, a set of expectations about the future that moves beyond literary experience through a sense of mission based on.".
- catalog description "ch. 1. The culture of science fiction : rationalizing genre -- ch. 2. From the steam man to the stars -- ch. 3. Science fiction outside genre SF -- ch. 4. Countercultures of science fiction : resisting genre -- ch. 5. New and newer waves.".
- catalog extent "xxxii, 251 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Science fiction after 1900.".
- catalog identifier "0805709622 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Science fiction after 1900.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in literary themes and genres ; no. 12".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International,".
- catalog relation "Science fiction after 1900.".
- catalog subject "809.3/8762 20".
- catalog subject "Fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN3433.8 .L36 1997".
- catalog subject "Science fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "ch. 1. The culture of science fiction : rationalizing genre -- ch. 2. From the steam man to the stars -- ch. 3. Science fiction outside genre SF -- ch. 4. Countercultures of science fiction : resisting genre -- ch. 5. New and newer waves.".
- catalog title "Science fiction after 1900 : from the Steam man to the stars / Brooks Landon.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".