My Favorite Books ABOUT Science Fiction & Fantasy
3. 
The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
by:
Tom Shippey
3.95 avg rating — 6,103 ratings 
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Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction
by:
Brian W. Aldiss
3.85 avg rating — 207 ratings 
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On the Good Ship Enterprise: My 15 Years With Star Trek
by:
Bjo Trimble
4.15 avg rating — 48 ratings 
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Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
by:
Michael Chabon
3.69 avg rating — 4,269 ratings 
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Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction
by:
James E. Gunn
3.83 avg rating — 64 ratings 27. 
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Lord of the Elves and Eldils: Fantasy and Philosophy in C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien 3.83 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth
by:
John Garth
4.31 avg rating — 534 ratings 
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Past Watchful Dragons. A Guide to C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia
by:
Walter Hooper
3.78 avg rating — 65 ratings 40. 
Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought
by:
Patrícia Vieira
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings 41. 
Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age
by:
Russell Jacoby
3.73 avg rating — 51 ratings 
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Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology
by:
Dan Dinello
3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings 44. 
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels : An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984
by:
David Pringle
3.87 avg rating — 223 ratings 
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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination 4.34 avg rating — 2,738 ratings
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Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults
by:
Mike Cadden
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 48. 
Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World
by:
Verlyn Flieger
4.02 avg rating — 1,133 ratings 
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The Mobius Twist, Alien Abduction and Judgement of the Human Race
by:
Markham Turner
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 53. 
Scraps Of The Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia
by:
Thomas Moylan
3.77 avg rating — 77 ratings 53. 
The Writer's Spellbook: Creating Magic Systems For Fantasy
by:
Lillian Csernica
3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics
by:
Julius Schwartz
3.65 avg rating — 55 ratings 
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.04 avg rating — 44,513 ratings 
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Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale
by:
Betsy Hearne
3.91 avg rating — 56 ratings 
68. 
Writing Down the Dragon: and Other Essays on the Tolkien Method and the Craft of Fantasy
by:
Tom Simon
4.43 avg rating — 35 ratings 
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Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory
by:
Marleen S. Barr
3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings 72. 
Sith, Slayers, Stargates, + Cyborgs: Modern Mythology in the New Millennium
by:
John Perlich
3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings 72. 
Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration 3.89 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism and Postmodernism
by:
Jenny Wolmark
3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings 
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The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Science Fiction (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism, 91)
by:
Brian Baker
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
by:
Laurence Davis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings 
89. 
Samurai from Outer Space: Understanding Japanese Animation
by:
Antonia Levi
3.58 avg rating — 72 ratings 89. 
Jewel Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
by:
Samuel R. Delany
4.23 avg rating — 260 ratings 
92. 
The Immortal Storm: A History of Science Fiction Fandom
by:
Sam Moskowitz
3.14 avg rating — 21 ratings 
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Into Other Worlds: Space-Flight in Fiction, from Lucian to Lewis really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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