Science Fiction Criticism
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Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
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Fredric Jameson
4.03 avg rating β 582 ratings 
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The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
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Thomas M. Disch
3.76 avg rating β 511 ratings 5. 
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Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy
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StanisΕaw Lem
3.94 avg rating β 282 ratings 8. 
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction
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Larry McCaffery
4.05 avg rating β 278 ratings 
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Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction
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Scott Bukatman
4.07 avg rating β 96 ratings 10. 
Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
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Brian W. Aldiss
4.08 avg rating β 402 ratings 12. 
Technologized Desire: Selfhood and the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction
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D. Harlan Wilson
4.21 avg rating β 14 ratings 13. 
Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction
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Sherryl Vint
4.37 avg rating β 35 ratings 14. 
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
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Donna J. Haraway
4.15 avg rating β 1,847 ratings 
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Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory
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Marleen S. Barr
3.31 avg rating β 16 ratings 17. 
Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction
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James E. Gunn
3.75 avg rating β 53 ratings 
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Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People
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Noga Applebaum
4.14 avg rating β 7 ratings 
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction 4.27 avg rating β 1,958 ratings
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Seekers of Tomorrow: Masters of Modern Science Fiction
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Sam Moskowitz
3.89 avg rating β 28 ratings 
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Explorers of the Infinite: Shapers of Science Fiction
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Sam Moskowitz
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 18 ratings 31. 
Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism
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Helen Merrick
4.13 avg rating β 15 ratings 
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Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 37) (Volume 37) 3.79 avg rating β 29 ratings
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Speaking Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 21) (Volume 21)
by:
Andy Sawyer
3.11 avg rating β 9 ratings 39. 
The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory (Volume 13) (Electronic Mediations)
by:
Thomas Foster
3.93 avg rating β 29 ratings 
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The Road to Science Fiction 3: From Heinlein to Here (The Road to Science Fiction, #3)
by:
James E. Gunn
4.17 avg rating β 201 ratings 
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The Road to Science Fiction 1 (The Road to Science Fiction, #1)
by:
James E. Gunn
3.85 avg rating β 125 ratings 45. 
The Self Wired: Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary Narrative
by:
Lisa Yaszek
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings 45. 
Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction
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James E. Gunn
3.83 avg rating β 64 ratings 47. 
The Road to Science Fiction 2: From Wells to Heinlein (The Road to Science Fiction, #2)
by:
James E. Gunn
4.03 avg rating β 90 ratings 
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The Road to Science Fiction 5: The British Way (The Road to Science Fiction, #5)
by:
James E. Gunn
4.22 avg rating β 23 ratings 52. 
Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption
by:
Rob Latham
4.29 avg rating β 24 ratings 52. 
The Road to Science Fiction 6: Around the World (The Road to Science Fiction, #6)
by:
James E. Gunn
4.28 avg rating β 29 ratings 54. 
The Road to Science Fiction 4: From Here to Forever (The Road to Science Fiction, #4)
by:
James E. Gunn
4.12 avg rating β 84 ratings 55. 
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Inside Outer Space: Science Fiction Professionals Look at Their Craft
by:
Sharon Jarvis
3.80 avg rating β 5 ratings 
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Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias
by:
Judith A. Little
3.92 avg rating β 48 ratings 61. 
Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth
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John C. Wright
3.80 avg rating β 168 ratings 
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Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics: Transmedia World-Building Beyond Capitalism 4.04 avg rating β 23 ratings
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The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction 3.78 avg rating β 9 ratings
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Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading and Teaching the Genre
by:
Karen Hellekson
3.88 avg rating β 8 ratings 
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Heinlein's Juvenile Novels: A Cultural Dictionary (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 32) 2.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 69)
by:
David Sandner
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 76. 
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Environments in Science Fiction: Essays on Alternative Spaces (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 44) 2.67 avg rating β 6 ratings
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The Heritage of Heinlein: A Critical Reading of the Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 42) 3.33 avg rating β 21 ratings
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The Archive Incarnate: The Embodiment and Transmission of Knowledge in Science Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 65)
by:
Joseph Hurtgen
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 84. 
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In Frankenstein's Wake: Mary Shelley, Morality and Science Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 72)
by:
Alison Bedford
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 86. 
The Sex Is Out of This World: Essays on the Carnal Side of Science Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 36)
by:
Sherry Ginn
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 87. 
The Monomyth in American Science Fiction Films: 28 Visions of the Hero's Journey (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 48) liked it 3.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Science Fiction and Futurism: Their Terms and Ideas (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 58) 4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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I See You: The Shifting Paradigms of James Cameronβs Avatar (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 34)
by:
Ellen Grabiner
4.17 avg rating β 6 ratings 93. 
Wells Meets Deleuze: The Scientific Romances Reconsidered (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 57)
by:
Michael Starr
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 94. 
Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film: A Critical Study (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 28)
by:
Roslyn Weaver
3.50 avg rating β 2 ratings 95. 
"Hailing Frequencies Open": Communication in Star Trek: The Next Generation
by:
Thomas D. Parham
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 96. 
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Formula Fiction?: An Anatomy of American Science Fiction, 1930-1940
by:
Frank L. Cioffi
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 98. 
The Intersection of Science Fiction and Philosophy: Critical Studies
by:
Robert E. Myers
2.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 
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