Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analysis: The Seminal 1951 Thesis with a New Introduction and Commentary

by James E. Gunn

James Gunn--one of the founding figures of science fiction scholarship and teaching--wrote in 1951 what is likely the first master's thesis on modern science fiction. Portions were in the short-lived pulp magazine Dynamic but it has otherwise remained unavailable.

Here in its first full publication, the thesis explores many of the classic Golden Age stories of the 1940s and the critical perspective that informed Gunn's essential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476673195
• ISBN13: 9781476673196
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher