Locating Science Fiction - 9781846318429

Locating Science FictionAuthor(s): Andrew Milner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781846318429, 978-1846318429\nSynopsis\nLocating Science Fiction is a ground breaking and potentially paradigm-shifting book, a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF.\n\nAcademic literary criticism has tended to locate SF primarily in relation to the older genre of utopia; fan criticism primarily in relation to fantasy and SF in other media, especially film and television; popular fiction studies primarily in relation to other contemporary genres such as the romance and the thriller. This bold new synthesis relocates SF in relation to each of these other genres and media and also to the historical and geographic contexts of its emergence and development.\n\nLocating Science Fiction effects a series of vital shifts in the way SF theory and criticism has conceptualised its subject, away from.