Science fiction criticism : an anthology of essential writings /
"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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Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
[2017]
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Table of 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
- 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.