Locating Science Fiction
Tags: Andrew Milner

In Locating Science Fiction, Andrew Milner looks at science fiction within the context of a host of other genresincluding fantasy, romance, and the thrillerand explores the historical and geographic contexts of science fiction's emergence and development. Bringing in Raymond Williams's cultural materialism, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture, and Franco Moretti's application of world systems to literary studies, he offers a persuasive, synthetic, and ultimately new mode of science fiction analysis that will become essential reading.