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Edging Into The Future : Science Fiction And Contemporary Cultural Transformation

  • Edging Into The Future : Science Fiction And Contemporary Cultural Transformation

  • Attribution

    edited by Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon

  • Publication Details

    Book, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002

  • Availability

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      (UPPER LEVEL)  PS374.S35 E37 2002         AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    Edging into the Future explores contemporary science fiction literature and media as imaginative expressions of an already science-fictional present and as literal descriptions of postmodern culture. Wolfe, provide an overview of the state of contemporary science fiction and emphasize the diversity of ways in which science fiction as a narrative mode and as a social discourse comments upon contemporary cultural, political, and technological transformations. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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  • Places in this work

  • Contents

    • 1. Introduction: Edging into the Future / Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon
    • 2. Evaporating Genre: Strategies of Dissolution in the Postmodern Fantastic / Gary K. Wolfe
    • 3. Omniphage: Rock ‘n’ Roll and Avant-Pop Science Fiction / Lance Olsen
    • 4. Synthespians, Virtual Humans, and Hypermedia: Emerging Contours of Post-SF Film / Brooks Landon
    • 5. Staying with the Body: Narratives of the Posthuman in Contemporary Science Fiction / Jenny Wolmark
    • 6. "But Aren’t Those Just … You Know, Metaphors?" Postmodern Figuration in the Science Fiction of James Morrow and Gwyneth Jones / Brian Attebery
    • 7. Sex/uality and the Figure of the Hermaphrodite in Science Fiction; or, The Revenge of Herculine Barbin / Wendy Pearson
    • 8. Mutant Youth: Posthuman Fantasies and High- Tech Consumption in 1990s Science Fiction / Rob Latham
    • 9. "Going Postal": Rage, Science Fiction, and the Ends of the American Subject / Roger Luckhurst
    • 10. Apocalypse Coma / Veronica Hollinger
    • 11. Kairos: The Enchanted Loom / Gwyneth Jones
    • 12. Dead Letters and Their Inheritors: Ecospasmic Crashes and the Postmortal Condition in Brian Stableford’s Histories of the Future / Brian Stableford
    • 13. Utopia, Genocide, and the Other / Joan Gordon
    • 14. Dis-Imagined Communities: Science Fiction and the Future of Nations / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr

  • ISBN

    • 0812218043
    • 0812236572

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