Description: A major, groundbreaking intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. It effects a series of vital shifts in SF theory and criticism, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of an amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts.
Brief description: Andrew Milner is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Monash University.
Review Quotes:
'Worth the attention of all sf scholars for the range and acuity of its conception of the genre as well as its theoretical rigor.'
John Rieder, Science Fiction Studies