Science Fiction: What It’s All About by Sam J. Lundwall
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Overview: Each chapter in this book deals with a different type of science fiction: historical precedents ("The Prehistory" ); utopias and dystopias ("The Air Conditioned Nightmare"); women in science fiction ("Women, Robots, and Other Peculiarities"); horror stories, fantasy, and their relation to science fiction; fandom ("FIAWOL!" – that is, "Fandom is a Way of Life"); the magazines; etc.
The author claims that what makes science fiction science fiction is not the mere use of speculative future science, but the "sense of wonder" — the creation of a future society where, due to advances in science or other reasons, things are very DIFFERENT from our own (not necessarily better), giving us a renewed perspective on ourselves and on future possiblities.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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