Visions and Revisions: (Re)Constructing Science Fiction

by Robert M. Philmus

Renowned science fiction scholar Robert M. Philmus offers in Visions and Revisions a fresh and provocative literary analysis of science fiction writing. He critically examines the works of some of the most prominent writers to have written in the genre--including Evgeny Zamiatin, Karel Capek, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Stanislaw Lem, along with English-language authors from H.G. Wells to Ursula Le Guin--and reveals how their works illustrate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853238995
• ISBN13: 9780853238997
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"