Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars
- ISBN-10
- 0805709622
- ISBN-13
- 9780805709629
- Category
- Literary Criticism / Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Pages
- 251
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Twayne Publishers
- Author
- Brooks Landon
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 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.
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