Article: Science Fiction Culture.(Review)

Camille Bacon-Smith. Science Fiction Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 317 pp. $24.95.

CAMILLE BACON-SMITH, folklorist, ethnographer, author of Enterprising Women, a study of the fan culture of Star Trek, has now produced a more general work on science fiction's fans, the ways the fans shape the culture of the genre, and the relationship between fandom and the publishing industry. Bacon-Smith describes Science Fiction Culture as "a book about how popular culture happens: how the books arrive on the shelves and why it's these particular books ... how we realize a life around the cultural products we are handed; and how we enter into ...

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