Fights of Fancy: Armed Conflict in Science Fiction and Fantasy

by George Edgar Slusser

Book Overview

This collection of 15 original essays offers new perspectives in armed conflict as a central aspect of science-fiction and fantasy writing. Looking past the superficial conventions associated with ray guns and aliens, swords and sorcerers, the contributors show how writers in the genre today are not so much imagining war more fully as they are completely re-imagining it. Science-fiction and fantasy writing is no longer mired in epic or chivalric models...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820314544
• ISBN13: 9780820314549
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 223 Pages