A review by cythera15
Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed by Sherryl Vint

5.0

Wow, I've actually learned so much from reading this book. I started reading this book just so that I can be more prepared to teach a course on science fiction next term. But I am now genuinely interested in pursuing sf as my dissertation topic. Vint explores the history of "sf" (both science and speculative), how the genre changed and grew over time, and gives a lot of interesting theoretical tools to think about the ways that science fiction affects our understanding of the world, ideology, and even the notion of literature/fiction itself. I am thrilled to go read the works that she analyzes/summarizes in this book. Yay!!