Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

This volume, which includes a discursive introduction and twenty essays by twenty-two contributors (both scholars and practitioners of science fiction (SF), offers a comprehensive analysis of a literary genre which stands at the intersection of numerous fields. In the opening pages, editor Farah Mendlesohn warns that the authors of this book are addressing a reader who is not completely unaware of what SF is, one who might even have read a few novels and seen a few movies. The book is not str...