UTM Library Science Literacy Week 2016

Offering a broad historical and theoretical reassessment of science fiction, Christine Cornea explores the development of this popular genre in cinema from its very beginnings to the present day.

Tracing the capacious genre's birth, evolution, and impact across nations, time periods, subgenres, and media, The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction offers an in-depth, comprehensive assessment of this robust area of scholarly inquiry and considers the future directions that will dictate the terms of the scholarly discourse.

Science fiction doesn't set out to predict what will happen - it's far more about how human beings react to "What if'..." - but it is fascinating to see how science fiction and reality sometimes converge, sometimes take extraordinarily different paths.

This book explores how contemporary fantastic fiction by women writers responds to the past and imagines the future.

What role has science fiction played in the actual development of computers and computing? And likewise, how has computing (including the related fields of robotics and artificial intelligence) affected the course of science fiction?

Seventeen wide-ranging essays explore the evolving scientific understanding of Mars, and the relationship between that understanding and the role of Mars in literature, the arts and popular culture.

Wizards, Aliens, and Starships delves into the most extraordinary details in science fiction and fantasy--such as time warps, shape changing, rocket launches, and illumination by floating candle--and shows readers the physics and math behind the phenomena.

The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres.

William Katerberg takes a new look at works of utopian, dystopian, and apocalyptic science fiction to show how narratives of the past and future powerfully shape our understanding of the present-day West.

In this thorough and engaging book, Gabriel McKee explores the inherent theological nature of science fiction, using illustrations from television shows, literature, and films.

Strange Divisions and Alien Territories explores the sub-genres of science fiction from the perspectives of a range of top SF authors.

This volume presents all of Weinbaum's short fiction previously collected in "A Martian Odyssey" (Fantasy Press 1948) and "The Red Peri" (Fantasy Press 1952).

The Fall of the Towers is a trilogy of science fantasy books.

This Library of America volume brings together four of Dick's most original, mesmerizing, and surprising novels: The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Ubik.