Explores themes and motifs in post-1945 science fiction series for children.
Preface
Introduction
That Spark of Subversion: Robots, Androids, and Artificial
Intelligence
The Celestial Barnyard: The Familiar and the Strange
No Business in Space?: The Female Presence
Science Is Serious Business: The Role of Humor
But What Is a Superconductor, Anyway?: The Absence and Presence of
Science
The City of Gold and the City of Lead: Utopias and Dystopias
We Must Learn to Get Along: Aliens and Others
Juvenile Science Fiction Series and the Coming of Age
Appendix: Annotated Bibliography of Juvenile Science Fiction
Series
Bibliography
Index
KAREN SANDS is an assistant professor of English at Buffalo
State College where her specialty is children's literature.
MARIETTA FRANK is a Curriculum-Reference Librarian at the
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford./e She has previously worked
as a high school librarian.
?Libraires that have science fiction clubs or readerships may want
to invest in it.?-School Library Journal
?Sands and Frank's book provides a useful list of works and some
interesting comparisons.?-SFRA Review
?The authors contribute to the possible creation of a canon of
accepted YA texts with their by identifying other important critics
of series and citing specific, well-known authors. They also have
presented us with an introduction that goes into the history of
series publishing and its relationship to science fiction which can
be explaned with readings of F.J Molson's articles on the
subject....The work is eminently readable as thumbnail sketches of
the series under consideration.?-The Midwest Book Review
?This survey of juvenile science fiction series since 1945 is
recommended for scholary collections with a focus on young adult
science fiction. Such collections will find this an important
survey which fills in many gaps in literature, providing a broad
review of the history, themes, characters and settings of post-1945
series titles from Space Cat to the Magic School Bus of modern
times.?-The Bookwatch
"Libraires that have science fiction clubs or readerships may want
to invest in it."-School Library Journal
"Sands and Frank's book provides a useful list of works and some
interesting comparisons."-SFRA Review
"This survey of juvenile science fiction series since 1945 is
recommended for scholary collections with a focus on young adult
science fiction. Such collections will find this an important
survey which fills in many gaps in literature, providing a broad
review of the history, themes, characters and settings of post-1945
series titles from Space Cat to the Magic School Bus of modern
times."-The Bookwatch
"The authors contribute to the possible creation of a canon of
accepted YA texts with their by identifying other important critics
of series and citing specific, well-known authors. They also have
presented us with an introduction that goes into the history of
series publishing and its relationship to science fiction which can
be explaned with readings of F.J Molson's articles on the
subject....The work is eminently readable as thumbnail sketches of
the series under consideration."-The Midwest Book Review
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