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Author: Mark Rose Title: Science Fiction Subtitle: A Collection Of Critical Essays Publisher:   Prentice-Hall Country: USA Date: 1976 Format: Paperback Class Number: 809.3876 Genre: Non-Fiction, Science Fiction, Academia ISBN-10: 0137949588 Cat#: S-TC-130 Rating: 7.0  Rate Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search on eBay

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edited by mark rose
published simultaneously in paperback and hardcover by prentice-hall, inc. englewood cliffs, n. j. (usa) 1976 in their spectrum series

xii including titles, indica, contents etc. + 174 pp + 6 including 4pp listings of the twentieth century views spectrum series = 192pp
cover art by stanley wyatt, taken from that for "the martian chronicles " by ray bradbury, q.v.
cover price $2.95 (in canada $3.50)

contents:
introduction by mark rose
i. backgrounds
"starting points" kingsley amis
"science fiction and literature" robert conquest
"the roots of science fiction" robert schools
ii. theory
"on the poetics of the science fiction genre" darko suvin
"the time-travel story and related matters of sf structuring" stanislaw lem
"genre criticism: science fiction and the fantastic" eric s. rabin
iii. approaches
"on science fiction" c. s. lewis
"the imagination of disaster" susan sontag
"how to play utopia: some brief notes on the distinctiveness of utopian fiction" michael holquist
"the apocalyptic imagination, science fiction, and american literature" david ketterer
"science fiction and the future" john huntington

chronology of important dates
notes on the editor and contributors
selected bibliography

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