LITR 201 - Introduction to Science Fiction

This Encyclopedia is a great place to start; not only when digging around for paper topics but for finding reliable background information about individual authors and works as well. Included is an extensive bibliography of science fiction works arranged by author. Located in the Reference area of the library.

This volume of the Scribner Writers Series provides reliable information in the form of biographical essays written by scholars. Each entry is generally 8-20 pages and focuses on a different SF author. In addition to addressing their lives and careers, the articles discuss the themes and styles of major works and place them in pertinent historical, social and political contexts. Each entry ends with a bibliography of works and recommended critical studies.

Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre.

This volume explores the broad category of SF as a genre, as one that challenges readers, viewers, teachers, and scholars, and then as one that is often itself challenged (as the authors in the collection do).

Rieder asks literary scholars to consider what shape literary history takes when based on a historical, rather than formalist, genre theory.

Gunn has collected the most significant essays produced for the Easton series, along with prefaces he wrote for reprints of his own novels. Cited here are some of the most significant works of 19th and 20th century science fiction and fantasy.

The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.