Butler Andrew Books
Books di Butler Andrew editi da Liverpool Univ Pr
Solar Flares
Butler Andrew M.
edizioni Liverpool Univ Pr collana Liverpool Univ Pr (Paperback)
Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as "confused, self-involved, and stale". The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf - on the one hand it aspired to be a serious form, addressing issues such as race, Vietnam, feminism,...
Solar Flares
Butler Andrew M.
edizioni Liverpool Univ Pr
Solar Flares examines the ways in which science fiction confronted a new epoch and its own history, including the rise of fantasy, the sci-fi blockbuster, children’s sci-fi, pseudoscience, and postmodernism. It explores significant figures such as Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delaney, and Octavia Butler. From Larry Niven’s...