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1. The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

   Edited by Mark Bould, Andrew Butler, Adam Roberts, Sherryl Vint

   Series: Routledge Companions

   The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international...

   Published January 4th 2011 by Routledge
2. Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction

   Edited by Mark Bould, Andrew Butler, Adam Roberts, Sherryl Vint

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction is a collection of engaging essays on some of the most significant figures who have shaped and defined the genre. Diverse groups within the science fiction community are represented, from novelists and film makers to comic book and television writers. Important...

   Published July 28th 2009 by Routledge
3. Planning the Night-time City

   By Marion Roberts, Adam Eldridge

   The night-time economy represents a particular challenge for planners and town centre managers. In the context of liberalised licensing and a growing culture around the '24-hour city', the desire to foster economic growth and to achieve urban regeneration has been set on a collision course with the...

   Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge
4. Selective Security

   War and the United Nations Security Council since 1945

   By Adam Roberts, Dominik Zaum

   Series: Adelphi series

   In contrast to the common perception that the United Nations is, or should become, a system of collective security, this paper advances the proposition that the UN Security Council embodies a necessarily selective approach. Analysis of its record since 1945 suggests that the Council cannot address...

   Published July 30th 2008 by Routledge
5. Science Fiction

   2nd Edition

   By Adam Roberts

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Science Fiction is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its practice and its critical reception. With an entirely new conclusion and all other chapters fully reworked...

   Published December 14th 2005 by Routledge
6. Fredric Jameson

   By Adam Roberts

   Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

   An invaluable introduction to the life and work of one of today's most important cultural critics. Studied on most undergraduate literary and cultural studies courses, Fredric Jameson's writing targets subjects from architecture to science fiction, cinema to global capitalism. Of his works, The...

   Published September 6th 2000 by Routledge
7. Science Fiction

   By Adam Roberts

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   This outstanding volume offers a clear and critically engaged account of the phenomenon of science fiction. Adam Roberts provides a concise history of science fiction also explaining key concepts in SF criticism and theory, in chapters such as Gender, Race and Technology. He examines the...

   Published May 17th 2000 by Routledge