Science Fiction Studies
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Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction
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Damien Broderick
4.18 avg rating β 22 ratings 4. 
Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy
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StanisΕaw Lem
3.94 avg rating β 282 ratings 5. 
Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
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Brian W. Aldiss
4.08 avg rating β 402 ratings 
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Jewel Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
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Samuel R. Delany
4.23 avg rating β 260 ratings 8. 
Deconstructing the Starships: Science, Fiction and Reality (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 16) (Volume 16)
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Gwyneth Jones
3.83 avg rating β 18 ratings 
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Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels : An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984
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David Pringle
3.87 avg rating β 223 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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Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence
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Susan Schneider
3.78 avg rating β 283 ratings 
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The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
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Laurence Davis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 27 ratings 17. 
Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science
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Damien Broderick
3.20 avg rating β 5 ratings 18. 
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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Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers
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Larry McCaffery
3.78 avg rating β 49 ratings 
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Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations
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Samuel J. Umland
3.80 avg rating β 5 ratings 
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Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia 3.67 avg rating β 12 ratings
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Metamorphoses of science fiction: On the poetics and history of a literary genre
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Darko Suvin
3.98 avg rating β 126 ratings 27. 
Scraps Of The Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia
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Thomas Moylan
3.77 avg rating β 77 ratings 
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Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction
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James E. Gunn
3.83 avg rating β 64 ratings 
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In Search of Wonder: Essays on Modern Science Fiction
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Damon Knight
3.69 avg rating β 58 ratings 33. 
Science Fiction and Empire (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, 35) 3.64 avg rating β 14 ratings
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The Issue at Hand. Studies in Contemporary Magazine Science Fiction 3.89 avg rating β 57 ratings
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More Issues at Hand: Critical Studies in Contemporary Science Fiction 3.73 avg rating β 26 ratings
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Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction
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Neil Barron
4.32 avg rating β 41 ratings 39. 
Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology
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Dan Dinello
3.77 avg rating β 39 ratings 40. 
Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century 4.12 avg rating β 244 ratings
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The Literature of Hope in the Middle Ages and Today: Connections in Medieval Romance, Modern Fantasy, and Science Fiction
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Flo Keyes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 9 ratings 
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Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Judith B. Kerman
4.08 avg rating β 184 ratings 48.
The Known and The Unknown: The Iconography of Science Fiction
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Wolfe
4.38 avg rating β 8 ratings 
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Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 19) (Volume 19)
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Chris Ferns
3.80 avg rating β 10 ratings 
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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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What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Jo Walton
3.89 avg rating β 1,100 ratings 58. 
Fictional Space: Essays on Contemporary Science Fiction
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Tom Shippey
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 58. 
The Sound of Things to Come: An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film
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Trace Reddell
3.25 avg rating β 4 ratings 58. 
Alien Invasions! The History of Aliens in Pop Culture
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Michael Stein
4.10 avg rating β 29 ratings 65. 
The Way to Ground Zero: The Atomic Bomb in American Science Fiction liked it 3.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Philip K Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 27) (Volume 27) 3.64 avg rating β 14 ratings
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Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation
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Seo-Young Chu
4.33 avg rating β 36 ratings 72. 
Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964
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M. Keith Booker
4.43 avg rating β 14 ratings 
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From My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World
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Helen Carr
3.17 avg rating β 6 ratings 
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The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick 3.60 avg rating β 15 ratings
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Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction
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Sherryl Vint
4.37 avg rating β 35 ratings 78. 
Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded
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Jason Heller
3.69 avg rating β 418 ratings 82. 
The Sex Is Out of This World: Essays on the Carnal Side of Science Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 36)
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Sherry Ginn
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 
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Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 39)
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Sherryl Vint
4.23 avg rating β 22 ratings 86. 
The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950
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Mike Ashley
4.32 avg rating β 34 ratings 86. 
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination 4.34 avg rating β 2,738 ratings
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Science Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader
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Sherryl Vint
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 89. 
Transformations: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970
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Mike Ashley
4.48 avg rating β 25 ratings 90. 
Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980
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Mike Ashley
4.50 avg rating β 18 ratings 90.
Brave new world, 1984, and We: An essay on Anti-Utopia : (Zamyatin and English literature) (Ardis essay series ; no. 4) 3.18 avg rating β 11 ratings
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Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science
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N. Hook
3.52 avg rating β 33 ratings 
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