Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 Brief historical surveys of science fiction subgenres
Part 3 Representative science fiction authors :
Isaac Asimov
Margaret Atwood
Octavia E. Butler
Samuel R. Delany
Philip K. Dick
William Gibson
Nicola Griffith
Joe Haldeman
Robert A. Heinlein
Nalo Hopkinson
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ian McDonald
China Miéville
George Orwell
Marge Piercy
Frederik Pohl
Kim Stanley Robinson
Neal Stephenson
H. G. Wells.
Part 4 Discussions of individual texts :
The time machine
The war of the worlds / H. G. Wells
Nineteen eighty-four / George Orwell
I, robot / Isaac Asimov
The space merchants / Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kormbluth
Starship troopers / Robert A. Heinlein
Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Philip K. Dick
The dispossessed / Ursula K. LeGuin
The forever war / Joe Haldeman
Woman on the edge of time / Marge Piercy
Trouble on Triton / Samuel R. Delany
Neuromancer / William Gibson
The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood
"Xenogenesis" trilogy / Octavia Butler
Snow crash / Neal Stephenson
Ammonite / Nicola Griffith
"Mars" trilogy / Kim Stanley Robinson
Midnight Robber / Nalo Hopkinson
Perdido Street Station / China Miéville
River of Gods / Ian MacDonald.
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The science fiction handbook by M. Keith Booker. ISBN 9781405162067. Published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
