TY - BOOK AU - Masri,Heather TI - Science fiction: stories and contexts SN - 9780312450151 AV - PN3433.5 .S325 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Bedford/St. Martins KW - Science fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Research N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 11-16) and index N2 - A selection of fiction by classic and emerging writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, grouped into major themes: alien encounters, artificial life, time, utopias and dystopias, disasters and apocalypses, and evolutions. The stories are complemented by contextual documents that suggest the scholarly, theoretical, and historical currents that drove the development of the genre ER -