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Expert contributors examine young adult science fiction in various countries and discuss special topics related to science fiction for young adults.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction History and Criticism Technological Fiction for Youth: 1900-1940 by Francis J. Molson American Y.A. Science Fiction Since 1947 by C.W. Sullivan III Young Adult Science in Canada by Greer Watson The Janus Perspective: Science Fiction and the Young Adult Reader in Britain by K.V. Bailey and Andy Sawyer German Science Fiction for Young Adults by Franz Rottensteiner Australian Science Fiction for Children and Adolescents by John Foster Topical Approaches The Young Adult Science Fiction Novel as Bildungsroman by Michael M. Levy Women in Heinlein's Juveniles by Marietta A. Frank Young Adults, Science Fiction, and War by Martha Bartter No Grownups, Please: A Study of the American Science Fiction Film by James Craig Holte Science Fiction in Comic Books: Science Fiction Colonizes a Fantasy Medium by Donald Palumbo Bibliography History and Criticism by Michael M. Levy

About the Author

C.W. SULLIVAN III is Professor of English at East Carolina University. His previous books include The Dark Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Ninth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (1997), and Science Fiction for Young Readers (1993), and Welsh Celtic Myth in Modern Fantasy (1989), all available from Greenwood Press.

Reviews

?recommended?-Interzone

?[This] collection reflects exhaustive scholarship and detailed research that literary scholars, librarians, and science fiction enthusiasts will welcome....A fine study?-The Midwest Book Review

?The bibliography is thorough and broad and will prove to be a great resource for SF scholars. As will this book. Young Adult Science Fiction's historical and thematic approaches, with the excellent concluding bibliography, will provide scholars with core information.?-Children's Literature Association Quarterly

?recommended?- Interzone

"�This� collection reflects exhaustive scholarship and detailed research that literary scholars, librarians, and science fiction enthusiasts will welcome....A fine study"-The Midwest Book Review

"[This] collection reflects exhaustive scholarship and detailed research that literary scholars, librarians, and science fiction enthusiasts will welcome....A fine study"-The Midwest Book Review

"The bibliography is thorough and broad and will prove to be a great resource for SF scholars. As will this book. Young Adult Science Fiction's historical and thematic approaches, with the excellent concluding bibliography, will provide scholars with core information."-Children's Literature Association Quarterly