A New Species: Gender and Science in Science Fiction

by Robin Roberts

This fascinating study is the first to examine the history of gender and science fiction and the first to discuss science fiction pulp magazines' images of women, as well as postmodernism and feminist science fiction. Robin Roberts begins with Shelley's Frankenstein, in which a female alien appears, and continues through H. G. Wells, the 1950s pulp science fiction magazines, Doris Lessing and feminist utopias, and the new generation of science fiction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252062841
• ISBN13: 9780252062841
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"