Science fiction criticism : an anthology of essential writings / edited by Rob Latham.
"Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science fiction criticism: an anthology of essential writing covers such topics as: Definitions and boundaries of the genr...
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Science fiction criticism : |b an anthology of essential writings / |c edited by Rob Latham. |
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| 300 | |a vii, 582 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part 1: Definitions and boundaries. Editorial: a new sort of magazine / Hugo Gernsback -- Preface to the scientific romances / H.G. Wells -- On the writing of speculative fiction / Robert A. Heinlein -- Wat do you mean science? fiction? / Judith Merril -- Preface to mirrorshades: the cyberpunk anthology / Bruce Sterling -- Cybernetic deconstructions: cyberpunk and postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger -- The many deaths of science fiction: a polemic / Roger Luckhurst -- On defining sf, or not: genre theory, sf, and history / John Rieder -- Part 2: Structure and form. Which way to inner space? / J.G. Ballard -- About 5,750 words / Samuel R. Delany -- On the poetics of the science fiction genre / Darko Suvin -- The absent paradigm: An introduction to the semiotics of science fiction / Marc Angenot -- Reading sf as a mega-text / Damien Broderick -- Time travel and the mechanics of narrative / David Wittenberg -- Part 3: Ideology and the world view. Mutation or death! / John B. Michel -- The imagination of disaster / Susan Sontag -- The image of women in science fiction / Joanna Russ -- Progress versus Utopia: or, can we imagine the future? / Fredric Jameson -- Science fiction and critical theory / Carl Freedman -- Alien cryptographies: the view from queer / Wendy Pearson -- The women history doesn't see: recovering midcentury women's sf as a literature of social critique / Lisa Yaszek -- Part 4: The nonhuman. Author's introduction to Frankenstein / Mary Shelley -- The android and the human / Philip K. Dick -- A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist feminism in the late twentieth century / Donna Haraway -- Virtual bodies and flickering signifiers / N. Katherine Hayles -- The coming technological singularity: how to survive in a post-human era / Vernor Vinge -- Aliens in the fourth dimension / Gwyneth Jones -- Technofetishism and the uncanny desires of A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots) / Alison de Fren -- Animal alterity: Science fiction and human-animal studies / Sherryl Vint -- Part 5: Race and the legacy of colonialism. Science fiction and empire / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. -- Further considerations on Afrofuturism / Kodwo Eshun -- Indigenous scientific literacies in Nalo Hopkinson's ceremonial worlds / Grace L. Dillon -- Biotic invasions: Ecological imperialism in new wave science fiction / Rob Latham -- Alien/Asian: Imagining the racialized future / Stephen Hong Sohn -- Report from Planet Midnight / Nalo Hopkinson -- Future histories and cyborg labor: reading borderlands science fiction after NAFTA / Lyssa Rivera. | |
| 520 | |a "Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science fiction criticism: an anthology of essential writing covers such topics as: Definitions and boundaries of the genre, the many forms of science fiction, from time travel to"inner space", ideology and identity: from utopian fantasy to feminist, queer and environmental readings, The non-human: androids, aliens, cyborgs, and animals, race and the legacy of colonialism"--Back cover. | ||
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