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The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
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The Way to Ground Zero: The Atomic Bomb in American Science Fiction
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The engines of the night: Science fiction in the eighties
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Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964
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The Sex Is Out of This World: Essays on the Carnal Side of Science Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 36)
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Science Fiction and Empire (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, 35)
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The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950
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Transformations: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970
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Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980
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Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination
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Deconstructing the Starships: Science, Fiction and Reality (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 16) (Volume 16)
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Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science
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Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature
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Hard Science Fiction
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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
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Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia
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Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond
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No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction
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Odd Genre: A Study in Imagination and Evolution
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On SF
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Paranoia, the Bomb, and 1950s Science Fiction Films
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Phoenix From the Ashes: The Literature of the Remade World
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Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction
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Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
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Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence
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Science Fiction in the Real World
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Science Fiction: Ten Explorations
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Science Fiction
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Scraps Of The Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia
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SF: The Other Side of Realism
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Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction
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Speaking Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 21) (Volume 21)
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Storm Warnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future
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The Detached Retina: Science Fiction and Fantasy
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The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
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The Science of Science Fiction Writing
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The Transcendent Adventure: Studies of Religion in Science Fiction/Fantasy (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy #12)
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Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science
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Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
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Visions and Re-Visions: (Re)constructing Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 32)
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When World Views Collide: A Study in Imagination and Evolution
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In Search of Wonder: Essays on Modern Science Fiction
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The Creation of Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Magazine Science Fiction
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The Issue at Hand. Studies in Contemporary Magazine Science Fiction
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More Issues at Hand: Critical Studies in Contemporary Science Fiction
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Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction
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The History of Science Fiction
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Seekers of Tomorrow: Masters of Modern Science Fiction
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Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf
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New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction
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Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction
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Unleashing the Strange: Twenty-First Century Science Fiction Literature
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Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology
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The End of the World
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Science Fiction Handbook
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Reading Science Fiction
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How to Live Forever: Science Fiction and Philosophy
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Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
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The Known and The Unknown: The Iconography of Science Fiction
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Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
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George Orwell's Animal Farm
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Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
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Mind in Motion: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick
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Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels : An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984
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Philip K. Dick
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The Novels of Philip K. Dick
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Brave new world, 1984, and We: An essay on Anti-Utopia : (Zamyatin and English literature) (Ardis essay series ; no. 4)
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Arthur C. Clarke: A Critical Companion
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The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
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Critical Theory and Science Fiction
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Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature
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Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations
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Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy
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The Literature of Hope in the Middle Ages and Today: Connections in Medieval Romance, Modern Fantasy, and Science Fiction
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Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination
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Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
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The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick
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Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 19) (Volume 19)
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The Postmodern Humanism of Philip K. Dick
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From My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World
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Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers
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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
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Philip K. Dick, electric shepherd (Best of SF commentary ; no. 1)
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Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived
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The Science In Science Fiction: 83 SF Predictions That Became Scientific Reality
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Rationalizing Genius: Ideological Strategies in the American Science Fiction Short Story
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The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
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Other Spaces, Other Times: A Life Spent in the Future
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Teaching Science Fiction
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The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
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Science fiction: A collection of critical essays
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From Utopia to Apocalypse Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe
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Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision
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Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction
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The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction
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The Heritage of Heinlein: A Critical Reading of the Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 42)
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