<i>The Science Fiction Handbook</i> offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. <ul><li>Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and works of utopian and dystopian science fiction<li>Each subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevant critical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, and recommended films relevant to the subgenre<li>Features entries on a number of key science fiction authors and extensive discussion of major science fiction novels or sequences<li>Writers and works include Isaac Asimov; Margaret Atwood; George Orwell; Ursula K. Le Guin; <i>The War of the Worlds</i> (1898); <i>Starship Troopers</i> (1959); <i>Mars Trilogy</i> (1993-6); and many more<li>A 'Science Fiction Glossary' completes this indispensable Handbook</ul>