FARAH MENDLESOHN teaches at Middlesex University, London. She was the editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction for six years, and is the author of Diana Wynne Jones and the Children's Fantastical Tradition (2005) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (2006), winner of a Hugo Award. She is the program director for the World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal in 2009.
"Mendlesohn goes well beyond a survey to offer new and often
surprising readings of works both familiar and obscure. A fine
critical work that offers fresh insights on almost every
page."--Brian Attebery, editor, Journal of the Fantastic in the
Arts
"Mendlesohn goes well beyond a survey to offer new and often
surprising readings of works both familiar and obscure. A fine
critical work that offers fresh insights on almost every
page."--Brian Attebery, editor, Journal of the Fantastic in the
Arts
"A useful and deliberately flexible taxonomy, and an intense
engagement with the arms race of rhetoric between makers and users
of fantasy. For authors and readers as well as academics and
commentators."--M. John Harrison, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke
Award
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