Secondary Sources
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Alkon, Paul K. Science Fiction Before 1900: Imagination Discovers Technology. Studies in Literary Themes and Genres: 3. NY: Twayne Publishers, 1994. PN3433.5 A45 1994
Asimov, Isaac. Asimov’s Galaxy: Reflections on Science Fiction. NY: Doubleday, 1989. PS3551 S5Z463 1989
Bacon-Smith, Camille. Science Fiction Culture. Philadelphia: U of PA P, 2000. PN3433.5 .B33 2000
Barr, Marleen S. Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory. NY: Greenwood P, 1987. PN3433.6 B37 1987
Barron, Neil, ed. Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2004. Z5917.S36 A52 2004
Booker, M. Kenneth. The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: Fiction as Social Criticism. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1994. PN3503 B619 1994
---. Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1994. PN56 D94B66 1994
Clark, Stephen R. L. How to Live Forever: Science Fiction and Philosophy. NY: Routledge, 1995. PN3433.6 I53 1995
Dinello, Daniel. Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology. Austin: U of TX P, 2005. PN3433.6 .D56 2005
Disch, Thomas M. The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World. NY: Free P, 1998. PN3433.5 D57 1998
Fletcher, Marilyn P., comp. and ed. Readers’ Guide to Twentieth Century Science Fiction. Consulting ed. James L. Thorson. Chicago: American Library Assoc., 1989. PN3433.8 R44 1989
Garnett, Rhys and R. J. Ellis, eds. Science Fiction Roots and Branches: Contemporary Critical Approaches. NY: St. Martin’s P, 1990. PN3433.5 S34 1990
Gottlieb, Erika. Dystopian Fiction East and West: Universe of Terror and Trial. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2001. PN56 D94 G68 2001
Gunn, James E. Inside Science Fiction. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow P, 2006. PN3433.7 .G86 2006
Hartwell, David G. Age of Wonders: Exploring the World of Science Fiction. NY: Tor, 1996. PN3433.8 H36 1996
Hassler, Donald M. and Clyde Wilcox, eds. Political Science Fiction. Columbia, SC: U of SC P, 1997. PN3433.8 P65 1997
James, Edward and Farah Mendlesohn, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. NY: Cambridge UP, 2003. PN3377.5.S3 C36 2003
Kitchin, Rob and James Kneale, eds. Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction. NY: Continuum, 2002. PN3433.6 .L67 2002
Lambourne, Robert, and Michael Shallis and Michael Shortland. Close Encounters?: Science and Science Fiction. NY: Adam Hilger, 1990. PN3433.6 L36 1990
Landon, Brooks. The Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age of Electronic (Re)Production. NY: Greenwood P, 1992. PN1995.9.S26 L36 1992
---. Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars. NY: Twayne Publishers, 1997. PN3433.8 L36 1997
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992. PN3435 L4 1992
Littlewood, Derek and Peter Stockwell, eds. Impossibility Fiction: Alternativity, Extrapolation, Speculation. Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature: 17. Atlanta: Rodopi, 1996. PN3433.8 I56 1996
Luckhurst, Roger. Science Fiction. Malden, MA: Polity, 2005. PN3433.8 .L83 2005
Moylan, Tom. Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, and Dystopia. Boulder: Westview P, 2000. PN3433.6 .M69 2000
Panshin, Alexei and Cory Panshin. The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence. LA: J. P. Tarcher, 1989. PN3433.5 P26 1989
Parrinder, Patrick. Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2001. PN3433.6 .L39 2001
Philmus, Robert M. Visions and Re-visions: (Re)Constructing Science Fiction. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2005. PR830.S35 P57 2005
Pierce, John J. Odd Genre: A Study in Imagination and Evolution. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1994. PN3433.5 P54 1994
Roberts, Adam. The History of Science Fiction. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. PN3433.8 .R55 2006
---. Science Fiction. NY: Routledge, 2000. P96.S34 R58 2000
Robinson, Frank M. Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated History. Technical assistance from John Gunnison. NY: Universe Publishing through St. Martin’s P, 1999. PN3433.8 .R58 1999
Rovin, Jeff. Aliens, Robots, and Spaceships. NY: Facts on File, 1995. PN3433.8 R68 1995
Seed, David, ed. A Companion to Science Fiction. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. PN3433.5 .C73 2005
Slusser, George E. and Eric S. Rabkin, eds. Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction. Carbondale, IL: Southern IL UP, 1987. PN3433.6 A44 1987
---. Flights of Fancy: Armed Conflict in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Athens, GA: U of GA P, 1993. PN3433.6 F54 1993
Standish, David. Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth’s Surface. Cambridge: Da Capo Books, 2006. PN3433.6 .S73 2006
Stockwell, Peter. The Poetics of Science Fiction. NY: Longman, 2000. PN3433.6 .S76 2000
Suvin, Darko. Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 1988. PN3433.8 S88 1988
Westfahl, Gary, George Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin, eds. Food of the Gods: Eating and the Eaten in Fantasy and Science Fiction. Athens, GA: U of GA P, 1996. PN3433.6 F66 1996
Willis, Martin. Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2006. PN3433.6 .W55 2006
Wuckel, Dieter and Bruce Cassiday. The Illustrated History of Science Fiction. NY: Ungar, 1989. PN3433.8 W8313 1989 (currently in Cup and Chaucer)