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The importance of science fiction to undergraduate literary studies cannot be underestimated. Its capacity to challenge students' social, political and cultural perspectives makes it invaluable in highlighting the contingent nature of contemporary society and the potential for change. Teaching Science Fiction is the first book in thirty years to address how science fiction might be taught to this effect. It presents comprehensive treatments of the major phases in the development of the genre including the scientific romance, Golden Age science fiction, the New Wave and science fiction's engagement with the postmodern. The book identifies and explores innovative teaching strategies which will both engage and challenge students whilst providing practical advice on how an sf course can be designed, delivered and evaluated. Sample syllabuses, a detailed chronology, a compact history of the genre and an extensive bibliography make this an invaluable guide for anyone teaching, or considering teaching, science fiction at undergraduate level.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors A Chronology of Significant Works Introduction; A.Sawyer & P.Wright Through Time and Space: A Brief History of Science Fiction; P.Kincaid Theorising Science Fiction: The Question of Terminology; G.K.Wolfe Teaching Utopia, Anti-Utopia, and Science Fiction; C.Ferns Teaching the Scientific Romance; A.Roberts Teaching Pulp Science Fiction; G.Westfahl Good SF: Teaching the Golden Age as Cultural History; L.Yaszek Teaching the New Wave; R.Latham Postmodernism, Postmodernity and the Postmodern: Telling Local Stories at the End of Time; A.M.Butler Teaching Gender and Science Fiction; B.Attebery Teaching Postcolonial Science Fiction; U.Mehan Teaching Latin American Science Fiction and Fantasy in English: A Case Study; M.E.Ginway Teaching Science and Science Fiction: A Case Study; M.Brake & N.Hook Design, Delivery and Evaluation; A.Sawyer & P.Wright Further Reading Index

About the Author :
ANDY SAWYER Librarian of the Science Fiction Foundation Collection at the University of Liverpool Library, UK, and Course Director of the School of English's MA in Science Fiction Studies. He is Reviews Editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. He recently co-edited Plan For Chaos, a previously unpublished novel by John Wyndham. He is the 2008 recipient of the Clareson Award for services to science fiction. PETER WRIGHT Reader in Speculative Fictions at Edge Hill University, UK. He is the author of Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader (2003), co-editor of British Science Fiction Television (2005) and editor of Shadows of the New Sun: Wolfe on Writing/Writers on Wolfe (2007). He is currently co-editing When Worlds Collide: The Critical Companion to Science Fiction Film Adaptations.

Review :
"a provocative, up-to-date guide to the full range of modern science fiction and the challenges it presents to students and teachers. - Patrick Parrinder, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Reading, UK


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  • ISBN-13: 9780230300392
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • ISBN-10: 0230300391
  • Publisher Date: 25 Mar 2011
  • Series Title: Teaching the New English


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