Peter Brigg. The Span of Mainstream and Science Fiction: a Critical Study of a New Literary Genre.(Book Review) From: Utopian Studies | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Hatfield, Len | COPYRIGHT 2004 Society for Utopian Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Peter Brigg. The Span of Mainstream and Science Fiction." A Critical Study of a New Literary Genre.

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Publishers, 2002. vii + 212 pp. $32.00

How SHALL WE ACCOUNT for the changes in and around science fiction? Are they signs that the genre is evolving into something else, or that its once clear borders have become more porous to encroachers from "outside"? lf the boundaries between SF and the mainstream are wavering, perhaps we are...