Science fiction criticism an anthology of essential writings / edited by Rob Latham.
| Other author | Latham, Rob, 1959- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2017] |
| Description | vii, 582 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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 -- What 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 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. |
| Abstract | "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 Writings 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"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017299585 |
| ISBN | 9781474248617 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1474248616 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781474248624 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1474248624 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ePDF) |
| ISBN | (ePub) |