Collected here are sixteen stories penned by authors from Thailand, the Philippines, China, Israel, Pakistan, Serbia, Croatia, Malaysia, and other countries across the globe. Available at the Greensburg Campus library.

Several copies of this book are available in the Pitt system.

Available at Hillman, Greensburg and Bradford Campus. "Science fiction makes us think, and helps us prepare for the future, understand the present and cope with the unknown by posing such questions as "What if...?" or "Just suppose..." -book jacket.

This title, available at the Greensburg Campus Library, presents some of the best new "Lovecraftian" fiction of the 21st century.

This collection provides readers with insight into more than seventy novels, making Paratexts a must read for science fiction and fantasy aficionados.

This book is available at Greensburg and Hillman Library.

Available at the Greensburg Campus Library.

This book is available at Hillman Library.

This is an e-book. There are also print copies of this title at both Hillman and Greensburg.

Print copy available at the Greensburg Campus.

In this 1979 publication, Suvin defines and explores the theoretical possibilities of sf. This book is available at several Pitt libraries.

This is an e-book. A print copy of is available at Hillman Library.

Science fiction (SF) has existed as a popular genre for around 150 years. This book offers a survey of the genre from 19th-century pioneers to contemporary authors, introducing the plural versions of early SF across the world, before examining the emergence of the "scientific romance" in the 1880s and 1890s. The "Golden Age" of writers' expansive SF pulp was concentrated in the 1930s, consolidated by best-selling writers like Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. The contributors to this volume also track the increasingly diverse forms SF took from the 1950s onwards. Leading international scholars, writing in an accessible style, consider SF as a world literature, referencing works from diverse traditions in Latin America, Europe, Russia and the Far East. This book combines discussion of central figures of the tradition with a new global reach.

The fifteen essays collected in Hard Reading argue, first, that science fiction has its own internal rhetoric, relying on devices such as neologism, dialogism, semantic shifts, the use of unreliable narrators. It is a "high-information" genre which does not follow the Flaubertian ideal of le mot juste, "the right word", preferring le mot imprévisible, "the unpredictable word". Both ideals shun the facilior lectio, the "easy reading", but for different reasons and with different effects. The essays argue further that science fiction derives much of its energy from engagement with vital intellectual issues in the "soft sciences", especially history, anthropology, the study of different cultures, with a strong bearing on politics. Both the rhetoric and the issues deserve to be taken much more seriously than they have been in academia, and in the wider world.Each essay is further prefaced by an autobiographical introduction. These explain how the essays came to be written and in what ways they (often) proved controversial. They, and the autobiographical introduction to the whole book, create between them a memoir of what it was like to be a committed fan, from teenage years, and also an academic struggling to find a place, at a time when a declared interest in science fiction and fantasy was the kiss of death for a career in the humanities.