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In this work, renowned scholar George Slusser analyzes science fiction's history by focusing on important thinkers, overlooked by other critics, who made key contributions to the development of science fiction as a global literature.

In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as "this enormously ambitious posthumous volume, " renowned scholar George Slusser offers a definitive version of the argument about the history of science fiction that he developed throughout his career: that several important ideas and texts, routinely overlooked in other critical studies, made significant contributions to the creation of modern science fiction as it developed into a truly global literat...

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Science fiction occupies a peculiar place in the academic study of literature. For decades, scholars have looked at science fiction with disdain and have criticized it for being inferior to other types of literature. But despite the sentiments of these traditionalists, many works of science fiction engage recognized canonical texts, such as the Odyssey, and many traditionally canonical works contain elements of science fiction. More recently, ...

George Slusser is a professor of comparative literature and the curator of the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Literature at the University of California, Riverside. His many books include Science Fiction:¿ Canonization, Marginalization and the Academy.

George Slusser is a professor of comparative literature and the curator of the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Literature at the University of California, Riverside. His many books include Science Fiction:¿ Canonization, Marginalization and the Academy.

Discusses the prospects of fiction in the information age by examining cyberpunk literature. Driven by deep concerns about society, ethics and new technology, cyberpunk is the literature of the first generation of science fiction writers actually to live in a science fiction world.

Speculations about new medical advances have been a crucial aspect of science fiction since its origins in the 19th century, when such novels as Frankenstein and The Island of Dr. Moreau provided powerful mythic images of doctors with godlike abilities to create and transform human life. This book is the first full-length study of the speculative literature of medicine, with contributions by two science fiction novelists and several noted scho...

First English translation of a classic gothic novel

These 15 original essays consider armed conflict as a central aspect of science-fiction and fantasy writing. Looking beyond the superficial conventions of ray guns and aliens, they show how writers in the genre now are not so much imagining war more fully as they are "re-imagining" it.

Acclaimed as a work of genius when first published in 1895, The Time Machine represents a revolution in storytelling. This collection of essays offers a series of original, penetrating, and wide-ranging perspectives on Wells's masterpiece by an international group of major Wells and science fiction scholars.

These essays examine the proliferation of stylistic acts and experiments in science fiction and fantasy and assess the genre's revolutionary qualities, its reordering of narrative priorities, inversion of consecrated categories, and elevation of "minor" devices.

A complete survey of Bradbury's works.

A survey of Ellison's writing career.

An examination of Le Guin's career, from her obscure beginnings in the science fiction magazines to her rapid rise to the top in the 1970's.

Dr. Slusser charts the course of Heinlein's development as a writer, from his days as a pulp hack to his enshrinement as a hero of the counter-culture.

Slusser examines Heinlein's classic years, from the publication of his first story, "Life-Line, " in 1939, to "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

A comprehensive survey of Clarke's science fiction.

George Edgar Slusser discusses author Samuel R. Delany's work, from his first paperbacks, to his latest success, "Triton.