A New Species: GENDER AND SCIENCE IN SCIENCE FICTION - Softcover

Roberts, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252062841 ISBN 13: 9780252062841

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1993

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0252062841
• ISBN 13: 9780252062841
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182