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02740cam a22003614a 4500 001 2BAC885E82AC11DE820800E8A7D7520A 003 SILO 005 20090806125851 008 081023s2009 enka bf 001 0 eng 010 $a 2008044598 020 $a 1405162066 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781405162067 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 1405162058 (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781405162050 (hardcover : alk. paper) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BTCTA $d BWKUK $d BWK $d CDX $d MSO $d IWA $d SILO 050 00 $a PR830.S35 $b B66 2009 082 00 $a 823/.087609 $2 22 100 1 $a Booker, M. Keith. 245 1 $a The science fiction handbook / $c M. Keith Booker and Anne-Marie Thomas. 260 $a Malden, MA : $b Wiley-Blackwell Pub., $c 2009. 300 $a viii, 348 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-340) and index. 505 2 $a Part 1 Introduction -- Part 2 Brief historical surveys of science fiction subgenres -- Part 3 Representative science fiction authors : -- Isaac Asimov -- Margaret Atwood -- Octavia E. Butler -- Samuel R. Delany -- Philip K. Dick -- William Gibson -- Nicola Griffith --Joe Haldeman -- Robert A. Heinlein -- Nalo Hopkinson -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Ian McDonald -- China MieÌville -- George Orwell -- Marge Piercy -- Frederik Pohl -- Kim Stanley Robinson -- Neal Stephenson -- H. G. Wells. -- Part 4 Discussions of individual texts : -- The time machine -- The war of the worlds / H. G. Wells -- Nineteen eighty-four / George Orwell -- I, robot / Isaac Asimov -- The space merchants / Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kormbluth -- Starship troopers / Robert A. Heinlein -- Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Philip K. Dick -- The dispossessed / Ursula K. LeGuin -- The forever war / Joe Haldeman -- Woman on the edge of time / Marge Piercy -- Trouble on Triton / Samuel R. Delany -- Neuromancer / William Gibson -- The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood -- "Xenogenesis" trilogy / Octavia Butler -- Snow crash / Neal Stephenson -- Ammonite / Nicola Griffith -- "Mars" trilogy / Kim Stanley Robinson -- Midnight Robber / Nalo Hopkinson -- Perdido Street Station / China MieÌville -- River of Gods / Ian MacDonald. 650 0 $a Science fiction, English $x History and criticism $v Handbooks, manuals, etc. 650 0 $a Science fiction, American $x History and criticism $v Handbooks, manuals, etc. 650 0 $a Science fiction $x History and criticism $v Handbooks, manuals, etc. 700 1 $a Thomas, Anne-Marie. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171226012451.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160824093332.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20100201162256.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2BAC885E82AC11DE820800E8A7D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search