Collects nine classic science fiction novels from 1953 to 1958.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterity is funda

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

Discusses writers such as Poul Anderson, Brian W. Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Alfred Bester, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Ray Bradbury, Algis Budrys, E