This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.

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A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.

The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and esta

The human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological ent