Science Fiction: On The Poetic...: Metamorphoses Of

Darko Suvin’s 1979 work, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre , is a foundational academic text defining science fiction through "cognitive estrangement" and the "novum". The book provides a theoretical framework for the genre while tracing its historical development from utopian literature to modern authors. For more details, visit the Peter Lang website at peterlang.com .