Rob Latham

Science Fiction Criticism (eBook, ePUB)

An Anthology of Essential Writings

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

The volume also features annotated guides to further reading on these topics.

Includes writings by: Marc Angenot, J.G. Ballard, Damien Broderick, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, Grace Dillon, Kodwo Eshun, Carl Freedman, Allison de Fren, Hugo Gernsback, Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, Robert A. Heinlein, Nalo Hopkinson, Veronica Hollinger, Fredric Jameson, Gwyneth Jones, Rob Latham, Roger Luckhurst, Judith Merril, John B. Michel, Wendy Pearson, John Rieder, Lysa Rivera, Joanna Russ, Mary Shelley, Stephen Hong Sohn, Susan Sontag, Bruce Sterling, Darko Suvin, Vernor Vinge, Sherryl Vint, H.G. Wells, David Wittenberg and Lisa Yaszek

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474248631
• Artikelnr.: 47401202

Autorenporträt

Rob Latham is an independent scholar based in the USA. Winner of the Science Fiction Research Association's Thomas D. Clareson award for distinguished service to the field, he is editor of the journal Science Fiction Studies and of The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (2014), co-editor of The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010) and author of Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs and the Culture of Consumption (2002). For two decades, he was a senior editor of the journal Science Fiction Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Definition and Boundaries 1. Editorial: A New Sort of Magazine
Hugo Gernsback 2. Preface to The Scientific Romances of H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells 3. On the Writing of Speculative Fiction
Robert A. Heinlein 4. What Do You Mean: Science? Fiction? Judith Merril 5. Preface to Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
Bruce Sterling 6. Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism
Veronica Hollinger 7. The Many Deaths of Science Fiction: A Polemic
Roger Luckhurst 8. On Defining SF
or Not: Genre Theory
SF
and History
John Rieder Recommended Further Reading Part II: Structure and Form 9. Which Way to Inner Space? J.G. Ballard 10. About 5
750 Words
Samuel R. Delany 11. On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre
Darko Suvin 12. The Absent Paradigm: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Science Fiction
Marc Angenot 13. Reading SF as a Mega-Text
Damien Broderick 14. Time Travel and the Mechanics of Narrative
David Wittenberg Recommended Further Reading Part III: Ideology and World View 15. Mutation or Death! John B. Michel 16. The Imagination of Disaster
Susan Sontag 17. The Image of Women in Science Fiction
Joanna Russ 18. Progress versus Utopia; or
Can We Imagine the Future? Fredric Jameson 19. Science Fiction and Critical Theory
Carl Freedman 20. Alien Cryptographies: The View from Queer
Wendy Pearson 21. The Women History Doesn't See: Recovering Mid-Century Women's SF as a Literature of Social Critique
Lisa Yaszek Recommended Further Reading Part IV: The Non-Human 22. Author's Introduction to Frankenstein
Mary Shelley 23. The Android and the Human
Philip K. Dick 24. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science
Technology
and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
Donna Haraway 25. Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers
N. Katherine Hayles 26. The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in a Post-Human Era
Vernor Vinge 27. Aliens in the Fourth Dimension
Gwyneth Jones 28. Technofetishism and the Uncanny Desires of A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots)
Allison de Fren 29. Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and Human-Animal Studies
Sherryl Vint Recommended Further Reading Part V: Race and the Legacy of Colonialism 30. Science Fiction and Empire
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay 31. Further Considerations on Afrofuturism
Kodwo Eshun 32. Indigenous Scientific Literacies in Nalo Hopkinson's Ceremonial Worlds
Grace Dillon 33. Biotic Invasions: Ecological Imperialism in New Wave Science Fiction
Rob Latham 34. Alien/Asian: Imaging the Racialized Future
Stephen Hong Sohn 35. A Report from Planet Midnight
Nalo Hopkinson 36. Future Histories and Cyborg Labor: Reading Borderlands Science Fiction after NAFTA
Lysa Rivera Recommended Further Reading Index