Science Fiction Books

New and Published Books

1. Battlestar Galactica and International Relations

   Edited by Nicholas Kiersey, Iver Neumann

   Series: Popular Culture and World Politics

   Looking at a television franchise like Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is no longer news within the discipline of International Relations. A growing number of scholars in and out of IR are studying the importance of cultural artifacts – popular or otherwise – for the phenomena that make up the core of...

   Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Music in Science Fiction Television

   Tuned to the Future

   Edited by K.J. Donnelly, Philip Hayward

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   The music for science fiction television programs, like music for science fiction films, is often highly distinctive, introducing cutting-edge electronic music and soundscapes. There is a highly particular role for sound and music in science fiction, because it regularly has to expand the vistas...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Building Imaginary Worlds

   The Theory and History of Subcreation

   By Mark J.P. Wolf

   Mark J.P. Wolf’s study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches to imaginary worlds that focused mainly on...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
4. Science Fiction

   By Dr Mark Bould

   Series: Routledge Film Guidebooks

   Science Fiction explores the genre from 1895 to the present day, drawing on examples from over forty countries. It raises questions about the relationship between science fiction, science and technology, and examines the interrelationships between spectacle, narrative and self-reflexivity, paying...

   Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. Artificial Culture

   Identity, Technology, and Bodies

   By Tama Leaver

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that today we live in an artificial culture due to the deep and inextricable...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
6. Science Fiction Film, Television, and Adaptation

   Across the Screens

   Edited by Jay Telotte, Gerald Duchovnay

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   While film and television seem to be closely allied screen media, our feature films and television series have seldom been successfully adapted across those screens. In fact, rather than functioning as portals, those allied media often seem, quite literally, screens that filter out something that...

   Published August 4th 2011 by Routledge
7. Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction

   Edited by Mark Bould, Andrew Butler, Adam Roberts, Sherryl Vint

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction is a collection of engaging essays on some of the most significant figures who have shaped and defined the genre. Diverse groups within the science fiction community are represented, from novelists and film makers to comic book and television writers. Important...

   Published July 28th 2009 by Routledge
8. Cyborg Citizen

   Politics in the Posthuman Age

   By Chris Hables Gray

   The creator of the cult classic Cyborg Handbook, Chris Hables Gray, now offers the first guide to "posthuman" politics, framing the key issues that could threaten or brighten our technological future....

   Published February 7th 2002 by Routledge
9. Star Trek

   The Human Frontier

   By Michèle Barrett, Duncan Barrett

   Michèle and Duncan Barrett are mother and son - she a distinguished social theorist now working in literary and cultural studies, he a writer still in his teens. Together they take Star Trek - the TV series, films, and related projects - and explore it for what it tells us (and asks) about being...

   Published December 12th 2000 by Routledge
10. The Cyborg Handbook

    By Chris Gray

    First published in 1996...

    Published October 1st 1995 by Routledge