ABSTRACT

First Published in 2002. This volume is about Science Fiction, its criticisms and teaching and covers the rise of science-fiction as a study and genre, looking at the work of H.G Wells, and the themes of epic, fable, language, cultures, its sociology, as a romance, and of a working daydream.

chapter |28 pages

Working Daydreams, Workshop Definitions

chapter |19 pages

The Sociology of the Genre

chapter |20 pages

Science Fiction as Romance

chapter |20 pages

Science Fiction as Fable

chapter |18 pages

Science Fiction as Epic

chapter |25 pages

Imitation and Novelty

An Approach Through SF Language

chapter |13 pages

The Science-Fiction Course