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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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4.35 avg rating — 607 ratings
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Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
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4.04 avg rating — 591 ratings
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Critical Theory and Science Fiction
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3.93 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
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3.76 avg rating — 513 ratings
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The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
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4.16 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Metamorphoses of Science Fiction
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3.95 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy
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3.92 avg rating — 285 ratings
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The Jewel-Hinged Jaw
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4.21 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction
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4.09 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
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4.08 avg rating — 403 ratings
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Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction
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4.05 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction
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4.39 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
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4.15 avg rating — 1,891 ratings
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Imagining Mars: A Literary History
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4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory
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3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction
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3.75 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Alien Encounters: Anatomy of Science Fiction
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4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Douglas Adams: The First and Lost Tapes
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3.88 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The World Beyond the Hill
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4.26 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Faces of Science Fiction
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4.35 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Starboard Wine
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4.25 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
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4.28 avg rating — 2,190 ratings
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Technologized Desire: Selfhood and the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction
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4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The American Shore
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4.26 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction
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3.63 avg rating — 122 ratings
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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
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3.77 avg rating — 2,313 ratings
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Seekers of Tomorrow: Masters of Modern Science Fiction
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3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions
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3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Secret Feminist Cabal
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3.90 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Explorers of the Infinite: Shapers of Science Fiction
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism
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4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
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4.16 avg rating — 50 ratings
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On Joanna Russ
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3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction
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3.57 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 37) (Volume 37)
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3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
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3.96 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Speaking Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 21) (Volume 21)
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3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory (Volume 13) (Electronic Mediations)
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3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
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4.16 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The History of Science Fiction
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4.04 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Road to Science Fiction 3: From Heinlein to Here (The Road to Science Fiction, #3)
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4.17 avg rating — 202 ratings
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The Soft Machine
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4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Road to Science Fiction 1 (The Road to Science Fiction, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 126 ratings
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The Self Wired: Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary Narrative
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction
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3.83 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Road to Science Fiction 2: From Wells to Heinlein (The Road to Science Fiction, #2)
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4.03 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative
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3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Reading Science Fiction
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3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Road to Science Fiction 5: The British Way (The Road to Science Fiction, #5)
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4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption
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4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Road to Science Fiction 6: Around the World (The Road to Science Fiction, #6)
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4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Road to Science Fiction 4: From Here to Forever (The Road to Science Fiction, #4)
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4.08 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction
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4.10 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
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3.90 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Inside Science Fiction
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Inside Outer Space: Science Fiction Professionals Look at Their Craft
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction
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3.57 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias
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3.92 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth
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3.80 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Breakfast in the Ruins
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3.91 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics: Transmedia World-Building Beyond Capitalism
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Political Science Fiction
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3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction
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The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction
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3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading and Teaching the Genre
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Comic Tones in Science Fiction: The Art of Compromise with Nature
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Young Adult Science Fiction
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Heinlein's Juvenile Novels: A Cultural Dictionary (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 32)
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2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Science Fiction for Young Readers:
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Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 37)
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An Asimov Companion: Characters, Places and Terms in the Robot/Empire/Foundation Metaseries (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 51)
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 14)
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3.48 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 69)
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The Worlds of Farscape: Essays on the Groundbreaking Television Series (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 40)
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Star Wars in the Public Square: The Clone Wars as Political Dialogue (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 50)
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Orbiting Ray Bradbury's Mars: Biographical, Anthropological, Literary, Scientific and Other Perspectives (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 41)
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Environments in Science Fiction: Essays on Alternative Spaces (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 44)
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2.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French Science Fiction: Stepchildren of Voltaire (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 24)
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3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Heritage of Heinlein: A Critical Reading of the Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 42)
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3.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 12)
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Archive Incarnate: The Embodiment and Transmission of Knowledge in Science Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 65)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Fortean Influence on Science Fiction: Charles Fort and the Evolution of the Genre (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 73)
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In Frankenstein's Wake: Mary Shelley, Morality and Science Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 72)
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The Sex Is Out of This World: Essays on the Carnal Side of Science Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 36)
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The Monomyth in American Science Fiction Films: 28 Visions of the Hero's Journey (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 48)
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The Science Fiction Mythmakers: Religion, Science and Philosophy in Wells, Clarke, Dick and Herbert (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 54)
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Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future: Essays on Foresight and Fallacy (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 27)
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British Science Fiction Film and Television: Critical Essays (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 29)
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Science Fiction and Futurism: Their Terms and Ideas (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 58)
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I See You: The Shifting Paradigms of James Cameron’s Avatar (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 34)
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Wells Meets Deleuze: The Scientific Romances Reconsidered (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 57)
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Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film: A Critical Study (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 28)
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"Hailing Frequencies Open": Communication in Star Trek: The Next Generation
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The Mechanical God: Machines in Science Fiction
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Formula Fiction?: An Anatomy of American Science Fiction, 1930-1940
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The Intersection of Science Fiction and Philosophy: Critical Studies
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A Literary Symbiosis: Science Fiction/Fantasy Mystery
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Clockwork Worlds: Mechanized Environments in SF
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by Justine Larbalestier (Editor) for a feminist viewpoint on the important milestones in the genre.