The Science Fiction Handbook

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"Science fiction has been an important force in English-languageliterature and publishing for well over one hundred years. The taskof adequately summarizing it ... would seem daunting. Doing itadequately and in a manner that is both understandable to the layreader and even at times entertaining might seem an impossibility.And doing all that in fewer than 350 pages . . . forget it. ButBooker and Thomas have succeeded. Bravo. As Mr. Spock might say,with the lift of an eyebrow, 'Fascinating.' As is this handbook.Every decent library should have it, and every good science fictionfan should refer to it. I guarantee you'll learn something and haveyour horizons expanded." (Green Man Review, September 2009) ?Booker and Thomas have produced a valuable work that manages tofind a niche in a suddenly crowded market for resources on sciencefiction.? (CHOICE, October 2009) "The book is ... rich, [and] diverse ... .If you are interestedin science fiction ... you [should] run out and get a copy.Although the focus is on literature, movies and TV shows are alsoincluded. I highly recommend it. The book not only taught me anddemonstrated its a potential as a reference work, it introduced meto works of science fiction that I had not read and left me wantingto go out and read them." (Exploring Our Matrix Blog,September 2009) "In short, The Science Fiction Handbook is a fascinatingreference work that puts science fiction subgenres into historicalperspective while offering more detailed analyses of representativecorresponding novels." (SF Signal, July 2009) ?In The Science Fiction Handbook, authors M. Keith Bookerand Anne-Marie Thomas finally give the genre its due, and celebrateit, as well as help to distinguish it from other forms such asfantasy or horror.? (SFscope.com, April 2009)"This book represents an extremely useful pedagogical tool, that will find a home in both research libraries and undergraduate classrooms."--Phillip Wegner, University of Florida