Science Fantasy: Critical Explorations in Fiction and Film [Hardcover]

Chasing Aristotles probable impossibilities,Science Fantasy: Critical Explorations in Fiction and Filmscrutinizes science fantasy, a hybrid genre that draws from both science fiction and fantasy. It delves into how science fantasy serves as a medium to shape the present and build a better future through memories and explores uncharted territories where science and imagination intersect. The eleven chapter of this volume challenge preconceptions and invites contemplation on the harmonious interplay between science fiction and the fantastical.

Cenk Tanis associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Pamukkale University, Turkey.
El?in Par?aogluis assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Pamukkale University, Turkey.
Nazan Yildiz ?i?ek?iis associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey.

Scholarly attention to science fantasy is long overdue. The hybrid genre can provide insights into both fantasy and science fiction as well as offering its own perspectives on gender, power, perception, and, as Douglas Adams would suggest, the meaning of life. The editors of this volume have gathered an important and engaging set of essays on key figures in the development of science fantasy literature, like Andre Norton and Michael Moorcock, and on its emergence into forms ranging from feminist utopias to superhero movies. Brian Attebery, Idaho State University and author of Fantasy: How It Works

Occupying the contested space or no man's land between the ostensibly conceptual rigor of science fiction and the supernatural extravagance of fantasy, science fantasy establishes itself as a unique genre even as it calls into question the basic differentiae specificae used to define these others. Science Fantasy: Critical Explorations in Fiction and Film delivers a fascination collection of essays that range across nl��