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The New Critical Idiom : Science Fiction
 
 

The New Critical Idiom : Science Fiction (Paperback)

by Adam Roberts (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge (18 May 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415192056
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415192057
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.5 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 224,049 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A useful introduction to SF. Roberts provides a much-wanted consideration of particularly race and SF.

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Science fiction is one of the most vigorous and exciting areas of modern culture, ranging from groundbreaking novels of ideas to blockbusters on the cinema screen. This outstanding volume offers a clear and critically engaged account of the phenomenon. Adam Roberts: provides a concise history of science fiction and the ways in which the genre has been defined explores key concepts in SF criticism and theory, in chapters such as Gender, Race and Technology examines the interactions between science fiction and science fact anchors each chapter with a case study drawn from short story, book or film, from Frank Herbert's Dune to Barry Sonnenfeld's Men in Black . Introducing the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New Wave, Feminist and Cyberpunk science fictions, this is the essential guide to a major cultural movement.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stimulating and interesting, 6 Oct 2001
I bought this book because I enjoyed the authors SF novels, and because I am interested in SF as a whole. I found it geared to students (I'm not a student), but nonetheless it has some very interesting readings of Science fiction from the earliest periods to the present day.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A well- executed, thoughtful, informative overview of SF, 25 Feb 2005
Roberts attempts to define science-fiction through the dual mediums of film and book and the other chapters cover various critical areas of the genre, including representations of race, gender and technology as a metaphor. The second chapter is an attempt at providing a history of the genre - I say 'a' history because the subject is subject to contention even now amongst fans.

The Roberts touches on various authors, including Arthur C. Clarke, Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, Philip K. Dick, H G Wells, Brian Aldiss, Issac Asimov etc. plus many critics on the field. Some aspects of philosophy are also considered in relation to SF texts, both film and novels. All in all the book is what it sets out to do: provide a critical overview of the genre. The reason it has no fifth star is that occasionally I find the arguments presented a little too obvious - though I concede this to be necessary in an introductory overview.

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