The science fiction handbook

Part 1 Introduction

Part 2 Brief historical surveys of science fiction subgenres

Part 3 Representative science fiction authors :

Isaac Asimov

Margaret Atwood

Octavia E. Butler

Samuel R. Delany

Philip K. Dick

William Gibson

Nicola Griffith

Joe Haldeman

Robert A. Heinlein

Nalo Hopkinson

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ian McDonald

China Miéville

George Orwell

Marge Piercy

Frederik Pohl

Kim Stanley Robinson

Neal Stephenson

H. G. Wells.

Part 4 Discussions of individual texts :

The time machine

The war of the worlds / H. G. Wells

Nineteen eighty-four / George Orwell

I, robot / Isaac Asimov

The space merchants / Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kormbluth

Starship troopers / Robert A. Heinlein

Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Philip K. Dick

The dispossessed / Ursula K. LeGuin

The forever war / Joe Haldeman

Woman on the edge of time / Marge Piercy

Trouble on Triton / Samuel R. Delany

Neuromancer / William Gibson

The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood

"Xenogenesis" trilogy / Octavia Butler

Snow crash / Neal Stephenson

Ammonite / Nicola Griffith

"Mars" trilogy / Kim Stanley Robinson

Midnight Robber / Nalo Hopkinson

Perdido Street Station / China Miéville

River of Gods / Ian MacDonald.