Characters in New British Hard Science Fiction: With a Focus on Genetic Engineering in Paul McAuley, Alastair Reynolds and Brian Stableford

by Sarah Herbe

Hard science fiction, a sub-genre of science fiction that is especially based on scientific plausibility and extrapolation, has experienced a renaissance from the mid-1990s onwards. The present study deals with a corpus of new hard science fiction novels by British writers published between 1995 and 2004, focusing on three series by Paul McAuley, Alastair Reynolds and Brian Stableford. It offers a thematic-narratological approach. Thematically, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3825358747
• ISBN13: 9783825358747
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
• Length: 249 Pages