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A New Species

GENDER AND SCIENCE IN SCIENCE FICTION

Robin Roberts author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Published:1st Apr '93

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This fascinating study is the first to examine the history of gender and science fiction and the first to discuss science fiction pulp magazines' images of women, as well as postmodernism and feminist science fiction. Robin Roberts begins with Shelley's Frankenstein, in which a female alien appears, and continues through H. G. Wells, the 1950s pulp science fiction magazines, Doris Lessing and feminist utopias, and the new generation of science fiction writers, including Joan Vinge, Sheila Finch, Vonda McIntyre, Ursula Le Guin, and Octavia Butler.
 

ISBN: 9780252062841

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm

Weight: 254g

182 pages