Scots like Iain N. Banks and Ken MacLeod lead in a futuristic tradition, for from MacDonald, Barrie, and Stevenson onwards, Scots have been speculating in ways derived from their unique circumstances: lacking political power, they imagine future spaces and different places-with a twist. Nineteenth-century thermodynamics (theorized in Scotland), Celtic Otherworlds, and a Scotland always on the "other side" of history open unusual futures for Mitchison, Spark, Lindsay, Mitchell, MadDiarmid, Morgan, Crumey, Fitt, and Gray.
Scots like Iain N. Banks and Ken MacLeod lead in a futuristic tradition, for from MacDonald, Barrie, and Stevenson onwards, Scots have been speculating in ways derived from their unique circumstances: lacking political power, they imagine future spaces and different places-with a twist. Nineteenth-century thermodynamics (theorized in Scotland), Celtic Otherworlds, and a Scotland always on the "other side" of history open unusual futures for Mitchison, Spark, Lindsay, Mitchell, MadDiarmid, Morgan, Crumey, Fitt, and Gray.
Caroline McCracken-Flesher is professor of English at the University of Wyoming. Her recent publications include Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (2005), The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders (2011), and the edited Bucknell volume, Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament (2007).
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Scotland's Fantastic Physics: Energy Transformation in MacDonald, Stevenson, Barrie, and Spark Chapter 4 The Other Otherworld: Didactic Fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to J. Leslie Mitchell Chapter 5 Allegory and Cruelty: Gray's Lanark and Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus Chapter 6 Speculative Nationality: "Stands Scotland Where it Did?" in the Culture of Iain M. Banks Chapter 7 Between Enlightenment and the End of History: Ken MacLeod's Engines of Light Chapter 8 The Cosmic (Cosmo)Polis in Naomi Mitchison's Science Fiction Novels Chapter 9 Non-Violence, Gender, and Ecology: Margaret Elphinstone's The Incomer and A Sparrow's Flight Chapter 10 Past and Future Language: Matthew Fitt and Iain M. Banks Chapter 11 Scottish Poetry as Science Fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid, and Morgan's "A Home in Space" Chapter 12 Brave New Scotland: Science Fiction without Stereotypes in Fitt and Crumey Chapter 13 Alba Newton and Alasdair Gray Chapter 14 Bibliography Chapter 15 Notes on Contributors Chapter 16 Index
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Scotland's Fantastic Physics: Energy Transformation in MacDonald, Stevenson, Barrie, and Spark Chapter 4 The Other Otherworld: Didactic Fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to J. Leslie Mitchell Chapter 5 Allegory and Cruelty: Gray's Lanark and Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus Chapter 6 Speculative Nationality: "Stands Scotland Where it Did?" in the Culture of Iain M. Banks Chapter 7 Between Enlightenment and the End of History: Ken MacLeod's Engines of Light Chapter 8 The Cosmic (Cosmo)Polis in Naomi Mitchison's Science Fiction Novels Chapter 9 Non-Violence, Gender, and Ecology: Margaret Elphinstone's The Incomer and A Sparrow's Flight Chapter 10 Past and Future Language: Matthew Fitt and Iain M. Banks Chapter 11 Scottish Poetry as Science Fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid, and Morgan's "A Home in Space" Chapter 12 Brave New Scotland: Science Fiction without Stereotypes in Fitt and Crumey Chapter 13 Alba Newton and Alasdair Gray Chapter 14 Bibliography Chapter 15 Notes on Contributors Chapter 16 Index
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