Review of Andrew Milner, 'Locating Science Fiction' (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012). Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 44, www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk. Pp. 244. Hb £70.00. ISBN: 9781846318429.

Abstract

This ground breaking volume by Andrew Milner has been hailed by Liverpool University Press as a 'potentially paradigm-shifting book' and as 'a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF'. 'Locating Science Fiction' is an impressive work of critical and cultural theory that engages with the literary sub-field of SF in its many guises, treatments and forms. SF's guises have included its eras of Golden Age, New Wave and Cyber Punk; its critical treatments have encompassed Post-colonial, Afro-futurist, Feminist and Post-feminist, Marxist and Post-Marxist, Post-modernist, Psychoanalytic, and Ecocritical. SF's diversity of forms includes comic strips and cartoons, radio and television serials, films, short stories and novels.