An established Spenser and Shakespeare scholar here takes science fiction seriously. Without trying to borrow respectability for it, he places it within the context of recent western ideas and belles-lettres...[and] offers it as the most responsive vehicle for the alienated modern sensibility.
[Rose] writes pleasantly and translucently in his important study, Alien Encounters...He persuasively argues that `the opposition of human versus inhuman...defines the field of interest within which science fiction as a genre characteristically operates'...He has something fresh and apposite to say, and goes a good way toward a ground-breaking definition of science fiction's characteristic concerns. These appear not only in the surface structures of science fiction, but also lurking within its subterranean metaphors.
[Rose] writes pleasantly and translucently in his important study, Alien Encounters...He persuasively argues that `the opposition of human versus inhuman...defines the field of interest within which science fiction as a genre characteristically operates'...He has something fresh and apposite to say, and goes a good way toward a ground-breaking definition of science fiction's characteristic concerns. These appear not only in the surface structures of science fiction, but also lurking within its subterranean metaphors.