@book{2022:westfahl:science_fi,
title = {Science Fiction},
year = {2022},
note = {In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as "this enormously ambitious
posthumous volume," renowned scholar George Slusser offers a
definitive version of the argument about the history of science
fiction that he developed throughout his career: that several
important ideas and texts, routinely overlooked in other critical
studies, made significant contributions to the creation of modern
science fiction as it developed into a truly global literature. He
explores how key thinkers like René Descartes, Benjamin Constant,
Thomas DeQuincey, Guy du Maupassant, J.D. Bernal, and Ralph Waldo
Emerson influenced and are reflected in twentieth-century science
fiction stories from the United States, Great Britain, France,
Germany, Poland, and Russia. The conclusion begins with Slusser’s
overview of global science fiction in the twenty-first century and
discusses recent developments in countries like China, Romania, and
Israel. Hayles’s foreword provides a useful summation of the
book’s contents, while science fiction writer Gregory Benford
contributes an afterword providing a personal perspective on the life
and thoughts of his longtime friend. The book was edited by
Slusser’s former colleague Gary Westfahl, a distinguished scholar in
his own right.},
edition = {1},
publisher = {Lexington},
address = {Lanham},
series = {},
volume = {},
editor = {Westfahl, Gary}
}