Trillion Year Spree: The History Of Science Fiction
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30 science fiction books to read after Trillion Year Spree: The History Of Science Fiction, by Brian Aldiss, the closest match first.
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1. World-building
by Stephen L. Gillett
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Strictly speaking, this isn't a book, not any more. It started out as a book, the first edition was published in 1979 (edited by Peter Nicholls and John Clute), a...
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2. James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life Of Alice B. Sheldon
by Julie Phillips
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In the mid-60s, sf editors started to receive stories from a new writer none of them had heard of before, James Tiptree, Jr. Right from the start they were good...
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3. The History Of Science Fiction
by Adam Roberts
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Okay, no two authorities will ever agree on the history of science fiction; we can't even agree on a definition of sf, so how on earth are we going to...
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4. The Oxford Handbook Of Science Fiction
by Rob Latham
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One of the best things that any book about science fiction can do is make you think again about what sf actually is. This book does it to an extraordinary...
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5. The Jewel-hinged Jaw: Notes On The Language Of Science Fiction
by Delany, Samuel R.
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Curiously, science fiction writers aren't always the best people to write about science fiction, they're too close to have the perspective that's needed. The result is often rather pedestrian, like...
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6. New Maps Of Hell
by Kingsley Amis
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In terms of literary culture, critical accounts of science fiction came rather late. Even so, there are some very early books that, if you can find a secondhand copy, are...
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7. The Language Of The Night: Essays On Fantasy And Science Fiction
by Guin, Ursula K. Le
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As a critic of science fiction and fantasy, Ursula Le Guin is neither as prolific nor as academically inclined as Samuel R. Delany, but she is always readable and insightful....
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8. Red Planets: Marxism And Science Fiction
by Mark Bould
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Science fiction has long been more than just a branch of literature. In fact, science fiction film is now often thought to be at least as important as science fiction...
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9. The Cambridge Companion To Science Fiction
by Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn
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If you were looking for just one book to read as an introduction to the range and variety of science fiction, this would be the one. As with all the...
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10. The Pattern Of Expectation, 1644-2001
by I. F Clarke
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I.F. Clarke is probably best known now for all his work on future war stories, such as The Tale of the Next Great War and The Great War With Germany,...
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11. Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf
by Algis Budrys
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There wasn't much in the way of serious criticism of science fiction until a trio of authors started writing reviews for the magazines. The three were James Blish (see The...
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12. All Our Yesterdays
by Harry Warner Jr.
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One of the unique features of science fiction has been the growth of a subculture around the genre known as science fiction fandom. Fandom first started to form around the...
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13. The Battle Of The Sexes In Science Fiction
by Justine Larbalestier
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Feminist thought has proved to be one of the most productive ways of approaching science fiction, resulting in a host of truly excellent books such as Decoding Gender in Science...
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14. H. G. Wells: Another Kind Of Life
by Michael Sherborne
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There are more books about H.G. Wells than any other science fiction writer, and it's not hard to see why. He led an extraordinary life: he had affairs with a...
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15. The Routledge Companion To Science Fiction
by Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts & Sherryl Vint
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Every major non-fiction publisher now seems to have a Companion to science fiction. In some respects, inevitably, they plough the same furrow, there are invariably essays on the history of...
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16. In The Chinks Of The World Machine: Feminism And Science Fiction
by Sarah Lefanu
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We said earlier how much feminist ideas had done for the study of science fiction, and this was, in effect, the pioneering work, the book that first laid out in...
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17. More Issues At Hand: Critical Studies In Contemporary Science Fiction
by James Blish (as William Atheling Jr.)
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William Atheling, Jr., was the name that James Blish took when he began writing science fiction criticism in the early 1950s. Before this, no-one had criticised science fiction like this....
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18. The Country You Have Never Seen: Essays And Reviews
by Joanna Russ
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You read Locus, don't you? It is the way we all keep up with what is happening in science fiction. And one of the chief joys of reading Locus is...
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19. Mechanics Of Wonder: The Creation Of The Idea Of Science Fiction
by Gary Westfahl
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Another collection of essays and reviews, but Joanna Russ was a very different reviewer from Gary Wolfe. She was excoriating, merciless in the way she would decry any failing no...
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20. Colonialism And The Emergence Of Science Fiction
by John Rieder
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Around 1911, Hugo Gernsback wrote a pretty crappy story called Ralph 124C41+, but the idea obviously stuck with him, because a few years later, when he was editing magazines like...
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21. Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science And Science Fiction In Interwar America
by John Cheng
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Throughout this list, we've tended to steer clear of too many academic books on sf. There are an awful lot out there now, and some of them are very good...
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22. White Mars
by Brian Aldiss
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It was a time of colour-coded Mars Red, Green, Blue Mars, for instance so it is hardly surprising to find one that offers yet another twist on the spectrum. But...
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23. Barefoot In The Head
by Brian Aldiss
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It's hard to know which Brian Aldiss novel to pick out for a list like this. Should it be Greybeard with its aging population living on a sterilised Earth? Or...
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24. Helliconia Spring
by Brian Aldiss
- Same author
From the back cover: Imagine a world in a system of twin stars, where Winter is 600 ice-locked years and every Spring is the first remembered. Imagine a People finding...
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25. Helliconia Summer
by Brian Aldiss
- Same author
From the back cover: Imagine a world a thousand light years from Earth, where each season lasts for generations, and each generation knows only one season. Where twin suns warm...
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26. Helliconia Winter
by Brian Aldiss
- Same author
From back cover of Ace paperback May 1987: Image Helliconia -- a world at the end of a reign that has lasted nearly two thousand years. The glorious civilization that...
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27. The Dark Light Years
by Brian Aldiss
- Same author
This comedic novel asks the question: just what does it mean to be civilized? It features gay characters and gender-shifting aliens.
This comedic novel asks the question: just what does it mean to be civilized? It features gay characters and gender-shifting aliens.
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28. Starship (also called Non-Stop)
by Brian Aldiss
- Same author
Aldiss' first book and a response to Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky, it shares many of the same themes. Written in the 50s, it is surprisingly dark and nightmarish.
Aldiss' first book and a response to Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky, it shares many of the same themes. Written in the 50s, it is surprisingly dark and nightmarish.
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29. Frankenstein Unbound
by Brian Aldiss
- Same author
A 21st century American passes through a timeslip and meets Byron, Shelley, and a Frankenstein doppelganger.
A 21st century American passes through a timeslip and meets Byron, Shelley, and a Frankenstein doppelganger.
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30. The New World
by Stackpole, Micheal A.
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A startling look at the role of government, including eugenics.
The three grandchildren of the royal cartographer Qiro Anturasi, a mapmaker whose magic can reshape reality, must save their world from destruction. Nalenyr is besieged on all sides by those...
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