A Companion to Science Fiction

by David Seed (editor)

A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers.

Genres: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Criticism

632 pages, Hardcover

First published July 20, 2005

About the author

David Seed is a professor of English at the University of Liverpool.

Reviews

[Susannah Bell · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting array of essays about science fiction for the literature scholar as well as sci-fi fans. Essays range from topics such as The Origins of Science Fiction, to Monsters of the Imagination, to Feminist Fabulation. Genres are discussed as well as sci-fi in film. Key writers are inspected, from H.G. Wells to Greg Egan via Ursula Le Guin and there are readings from Mary Shelley to Iain M. Banks via William Gibson. I didn't read this from cover to cover but picked out the essays that interested me the most. And the more I read, the more I wanted to read. Entertaining as well as informative.

[Michael · Rating 1 out of 5]

I have not read all of this ginormo thick book. Many of the essays are boring. The editing is terrible; there are a tremendous number of typos. One of the authors apparently fell in love with (parenthesis) and can't stop (using them) which made his (maddeningly sexualized) article on John Wyndam (pretty much unreadable).

Mostly this was a dud. Bummer.

[Josita · Rating 4 out of 5]

que la lili no se entere que me gusto esto de la ciencia ficción