Science fiction (SF) has existed as a popular genre for around 150 years. This book offers a survey of the genre from 19th-century pioneers to contemporary authors, introducing the plural versions of early SF across the world, before examining the emergence of the "scientific romance" in the 1880s and 1890s. The "Golden Age" of writers' expansive SF pulp was concentrated in the...(展开全部)

达科·苏恩文（Dazko Suvin），1930年出生于克罗地亚首府萨格勒布，当代世界著名科幻文学研究专家，世界上最具影响的马克思主义学派理论家之一，时西方现当代科幻文学的研究产生了重要影响。代表性著述有《科幻小说变形记》，《科幻小说面面观》，《编剧艺术两面观》，《英国维多利亚时期的科幻小说》等；主编有《社会主义国家的科幻小说》，《H.G.威尔斯和现代科幻小说》，《科幻小说研究：科幻小说论文选编》（与R.D.马伦共同主编）等。

Journey through time and space with this graphic novel history of the science fiction genre, from Jules Verne, Jonathan Swift, and Mary Shelley to William Gibson and Philip K. Dick to Ken Liu and Ted Chiang, and beyond. Trace the progress of SF through modern times and learn why key figures and inventors like Thomas Edison and Elon Musk have looked to science fiction to predict...(展开全部)

The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diver...(展开全部)

In Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction, Quentin Meillassoux addresses the problem of chaos and of the constancy of natural laws in the context of literature. With his usual argumentative rigor, he elucidates the distinction between science fiction, a genre in which science remains possible in spite of all the upheavals that may attend the world in which the tale takes pla...(展开全部)

布赖恩·奥尔迪斯（Brian Aldiss），1925年出生于英格兰诺福克郡。他在牛津从事书商工作时发表了他的第一部小说《亮泉日记》（1955）。作为世界科幻小说创作领域最重要的作家和批评家之一，奥尔迪斯不仅发表了多种诗歌作品和批评著述，而且创作了四十多部长篇小说，三百多个短篇小说，获得过所有重要的科幻小说奖项。

Writing Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry, travel writing, and realist, modernist, and postmodern ...(展开全部)

Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History tells a new story about the cultural imagination of the West. Timothy Hampton shows how cheerfulness—a momentary uptick in emotional energy, a temporary lightening of spirit—functions as a theme in the work of major artists from Shakespeare to Louis Armstrong. The book studies both the philosophical construal of cheerfulness—as a th...(展开全部)

Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner life and its ordinary pains. Francis O'Gorman charts the emergence of our contemporary idea of worry in the Victorian era and its establishment, after the First World War, as a feature of modernity. For some writers between the Wars, worry was the "disease of the age." Worrying examines the everyd...(展开全部)

“Information” has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world that became central only in the digital age. In this book, leading experts turn to China’s textual tradition to show the significance of information for reconceptualizing the work of literary history, from its beginnings to the present moment. Cont...(展开全部)