How did science fiction emerge as a genre? What ideas-obsessions-drove its writers? And their readers? How and why has science fiction changed over time-and how has it not changed at all? And what does science fiction mean to people today? This collection by Cyberpunk, Steampunk and Wizardry and The End of Science Fiction? author Nader Elhefnawy takes up these questions and, focusing on those aspects of the field few care (or dare) to acknowledge looks past the clich?s of the genre's history to offer some surprising answers about what science fiction has really been all about-and just where science fiction may be going in the years ahead.
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