Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Challenging Genres /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thomas, P. L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2013.
• Series: Critical Literacy Teaching Series, Challenging Authors and Genre
• Subjects: Education.; Education, general.

Why did Kurt Vonnegut shun being labeled a writer of science fiction (SF)? How did Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin find themselves in a public argument about the nature of SF? This volume explores the broad category of SF as a genre, as one that challenges readers, viewers, teachers, and schol...