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The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
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4.16 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Critical Theory and Science Fiction
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3.93 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction
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4.17 avg rating — 23 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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Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
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4.08 avg rating — 403 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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Jewel Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
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4.21 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Deconstructing the Starships: Science, Fiction and Reality (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 16) (Volume 16)
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3.83 avg rating — 18 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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Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels : An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984
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3.87 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination
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3.95 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
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4.28 avg rating — 2,178 ratings
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Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature
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3.86 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence
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3.78 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Science Fiction
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3.72 avg rating — 186 ratings
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The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
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4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science
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3.20 avg rating — 5 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 — 590 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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Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers
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3.78 avg rating — 49 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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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
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3.77 avg rating — 2,311 ratings
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Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
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4.41 avg rating — 545 ratings
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Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia
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3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Metamorphoses of science fiction: On the poetics and history of a literary genre
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3.95 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Scraps Of The Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia
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3.77 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
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3.30 avg rating — 549 ratings
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SF: The Other Side of Realism
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3.33 avg rating — 6 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 Science of Science Fiction Writing
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3.96 avg rating — 49 ratings
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In Search of Wonder: Essays on Modern Science Fiction
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3.69 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Science Fiction and Empire (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, 35)
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3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Issue at Hand. Studies in Contemporary Magazine Science Fiction
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3.90 avg rating — 59 ratings
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More Issues at Hand: Critical Studies in Contemporary Science Fiction
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3.65 avg rating — 26 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 Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction
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3.50 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction
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4.32 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology
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3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
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4.12 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Science Fiction Handbook
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3.83 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Reading Science Fiction
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3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Literature of Hope in the Middle Ages and Today: Connections in Medieval Romance, Modern Fantasy, and Science Fiction
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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How to Live Forever: Science Fiction and Philosophy
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3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination
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3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
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4.35 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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4.09 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The Known and The Unknown: The Iconography of Science Fiction
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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
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4.17 avg rating — 1,191 ratings
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The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick
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4.10 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
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George Orwell's Animal Farm
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3.95 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
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3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
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3.87 avg rating — 3,068 ratings
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Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 19) (Volume 19)
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction
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3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Postmodern Humanism of Philip K. Dick
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3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Mind in Motion: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick
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3.83 avg rating — 6 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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Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction
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3.75 avg rating — 53 ratings
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El sentido de la ciencia-ficción
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4.28 avg rating — 46 ratings
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What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction & Fantasy
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3.89 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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Fictional Space: Essays on Contemporary Science Fiction
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Sound of Things to Come: An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Alien Invasions! The History of Aliens in Pop Culture
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4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Way to Ground Zero: The Atomic Bomb in American Science Fiction
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 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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Discognition
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4.17 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The engines of the night: Science fiction in the eighties
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4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Philip K Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 27) (Volume 27)
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3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction
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4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation
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4.36 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964
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4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Philip K. Dick
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3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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From My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World
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3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Ciencia ficción, utopía y mercado
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4.28 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Race in American Science Fiction
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3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick
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3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision
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3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Asimov on Science Fiction
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3.94 avg rating — 329 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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Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded
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3.69 avg rating — 419 ratings
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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, 36)
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed
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3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Novels of Philip K. Dick
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3.86 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 39)
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4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950
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4.34 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
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4.34 avg rating — 2,857 ratings
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Science Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Transformations: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970
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4.46 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980
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4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Brave new world, 1984, and We: An essay on Anti-Utopia : (Zamyatin and English literature) (Ardis essay series ; no. 4)
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3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction
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3.71 avg rating — 42 ratings
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On Joanna Russ
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3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality
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3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 55)
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Solaris
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3.52 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science
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3.53 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Arthur C. Clarke: A Critical Companion
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Hard Science Fiction
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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