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China Miéville, author of Perdido Street Station and Iron Council
"This is a well–conceived, impressively researched and eloquently argued study of Anglo–American science fiction. Combining a sweeping command of cultural–historical contexts with incisive close readings of individual texts, Roger Luckhurst illuminates over a century′s worth of print and mass–media SF. Whether discussing popular concerns about the pervasive power of "Mechanism" in the nineteenth century or avant–gardist critiques of the media–saturated "Society of the Spectacle" in the 1960s, Luckhurst′s consistent emphasis on how SF registers the impact of techno–scientific change gives his study a remarkable coherence. In sum, this is an essential and timely volume"
Rob Latham, University of Iowa
"This is a refreshing and lively survey of a very broad field. It usefully situates science fiction in its relevant cultural context and makes a valuable contribution to the history of the genre."
David Seed, Liverpool University
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Luckhurst reads science fiction as a literature of modernity. His astute analysis examines how the genre provides a constantly modulating record of how human embodiment is transformed by scientific and technological change and how the very sense of self is imaginatively recomposed in popular fictions that range from utopian possibility to Gothic terror. This highly readable study charts the overlapping yet distinct histories of British and American science fiction, with commentary on the central authors, magazines, movements and texts from 1880 to the present day. It will be an invaluable guide and resource for all students taking courses on science fiction, technoculture and popular literature, but will equally be fascinating for anyone who has ever enjoyed a science fiction book.
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