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John Rieder. On Defining SF, or Not: Genre Theory, SF, and History. In his groundbreaking 1984 essay, “A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre,” Rick Altman could accurately state that “genre theory has up to now aimed almost exclusively at the elaboration of a synchronic model approximating the syntactic operation of a specific genre” (12).
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Finding a definition for science fiction is either the simplest thing in the world, or it is an impossible feat to accomplish, depending on who you ask. Author and critic Damon Knight is infamous for stating that “Science fiction is what we point to when we say ‘science fiction'” (viii), whereas author Samuel Delaney polemically called a definition...
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Bould, Mark, et al., eds. The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. London: Routledge, 2009.Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, Jr. “The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Studies 23.3 (1996): 385-88.James, Edward, and Farah Mendlesohn, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.Luckhurst, Roger. Science Fiction. London: Polity, 2005.I would say that the more inclusive and broadly-based bibliographies of Bleiler and Clareson are to be preferred.Examples of the kind of delineation of the emergence of the genre advocated here include Rieder's in chapter 2 of Colonialism and the Emergence of Science 2 and 3 of Luckhurst's Science Fiction.
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John Rieder provides a detailed academic analysis of science fiction as a popular genre from the postmodern perspective (Rieder, 2010), describing Wittgenstein's 'family resemblances', and...
Apr 25, 2014 · John Rieder in his eye-opening book Colonialism and the Emergence of Science-Fiction notes that most scholars believe that science fiction coalesced "in the period of the most fervid...
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The term science fiction became widely used in the pulps in the 1930s, and it is strongly associated with the dominant form taken by it in the 1940s and 1950s pulp magazines, a period that continues to be called science fiction's Golden Age. MLA Citation of this article: Rieder, John.
