Science Fiction and Fantasy Critiques
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Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels : An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984
by:
David Pringle
3.87 avg rating β 223 ratings 
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Jewel Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
by:
Samuel R. Delany
4.23 avg rating β 260 ratings 5. 
Locating Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 44)
by:
Andrew Milner
3.25 avg rating β 12 ratings 
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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
by:
Tom Shippey
3.95 avg rating β 6,103 ratings 8. 
The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction 4.27 avg rating β 1,958 ratings
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Anatomy of Wonder 4: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction
by:
Neil Barron
4.32 avg rating β 41 ratings 
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Science Fiction (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism, 91)
by:
Brian Baker
4.12 avg rating β 8 ratings 
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Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation
by:
Seo-Young Chu
4.33 avg rating β 36 ratings 14. 
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A Critical History of Television's The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964
by:
Don Presnell
3.71 avg rating β 7 ratings 
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Writing Down the Dragon: and Other Essays on the Tolkien Method and the Craft of Fantasy
by:
Tom Simon
4.43 avg rating β 35 ratings 
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Metamorphoses of science fiction: On the poetics and history of a literary genre
by:
Darko Suvin
3.98 avg rating β 126 ratings 
29. 
The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction (The Overlook Film Encyclopedia Series)
by:
Phil Hardy
4.44 avg rating β 77 ratings 
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Fantastic Television: A Pictoral History of Sci-Fi, the Unusual, and the Fantastic
by:
Gary Gerani
4.11 avg rating β 36 ratings 
38. 
Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
by:
Michael Chabon
3.69 avg rating β 4,269 ratings 
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Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion
by:
Neil Gaiman
4.28 avg rating β 25,283 ratings 
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The Illustrated History of Science Fiction (Ungar Writers Recognitions Series)
by:
Dieter Wuckel
3.40 avg rating β 5 ratings 
48. 
Robert A. Heinlein (Twayne's United States Authors, #522)
by:
Leon Stover
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 14 ratings 48. 
The Last Straw: A Critical Autopsy of a Galaxy Far, Far Away
by:
John C. Wright
4.31 avg rating β 49 ratings 50. 
Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century) really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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From Barsoom to Malacandra: Musings on Things Past and Things to Come
by:
John C. Wright
4.03 avg rating β 32 ratings 53. 
Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science
by:
Damien Broderick
3.20 avg rating β 5 ratings 
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Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels: in English Language Selection, 1946-1987
by:
David Pringle
4.07 avg rating β 92 ratings 56. 
The Lament of Prometheus: An Examination of David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus
by:
John C. Wright
3.67 avg rating β 15 ratings 59. 
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Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth
by:
John C. Wright
3.80 avg rating β 168 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 β 534 ratings 65. 
Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought
by:
PatrΓcia Vieira
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 13 ratings 65. 
Fantasy of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History
by:
Randy Broecker
4.02 avg rating β 57 ratings 67. 
Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age
by:
Russell Jacoby
3.73 avg rating β 51 ratings 
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Philip K. Dick and Philosophy: Do Androids Have Kindred Spirits? (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 63)
by:
D.E. Wittkower
3.89 avg rating β 108 ratings 69. 
The Atlas of the Land: A Complete Guide to the Strange and Magical Land of Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant 4.21 avg rating β 172 ratings
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Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology
by:
Dan Dinello
3.77 avg rating β 39 ratings 78. 
Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived
by:
Daniel H. Wilson
3.41 avg rating β 677 ratings 79. 
Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 19) (Volume 19)
by:
Chris Ferns
3.80 avg rating β 10 ratings 
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Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction
by:
James E. Gunn
3.83 avg rating β 64 ratings 84. 
Deconstructing the Starships: Essays and Review (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 16) (Volume 16)
by:
Gwyneth Jones
3.83 avg rating β 18 ratings 
87. 
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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Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers
by:
Larry McCaffery
3.78 avg rating β 49 ratings 89. 
Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults
by:
Mike Cadden
3.67 avg rating β 3 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 β 27 ratings 95. 
Philip K. Dick, electric shepherd (Best of SF commentary ; no. 1)
by:
Bruce Gillespie
3.58 avg rating β 12 ratings 
97. 
Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations
by:
Samuel J. Umland
3.80 avg rating β 5 ratings 
99. 
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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Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy
by:
StanisΕaw Lem
3.94 avg rating β 282 ratings