Parabolas of science fiction / edited by Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger.

Other author Attebery, Brian, 1951-
Other author Hollinger, Veronica.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMiddletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2013]
Descriptionxv, 312 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents Science fictional parabolas: jazz, geometry, and generation starships / Brian Attebery -- Dancing with Scheherazade: some reflections in the Djinni's glass / Terry Dowling -- Breaking the frame / Graham Sleight -- Katherine MacLean's short science fiction and cytology: science as parabola / Jane Donawerth -- Second contact: the first contact story in Latin American science fiction / Rachel Haywood Ferreira -- Parabolas of SFQ: Canadian science fiction in French and the making of a "national" subgenre / Amy J. Ransom -- The domestic SF parabola / Lisa Yaszek -- Mad scientists, chimps, and mice with human brains: collapsing boundaries in science fiction / L. Timmel Duchamp -- Coded transmissions: gender and genre reception in The matrix / David M. Higgins -- The mad scientist, the failed experiment, and the queer family of man: Sirius, Frankenstein, and the SF stockroom / John Rieder -- Back to the filthy workshop: "faithful" film adaptations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Nicholas Ruddick -- The future of the past: science fiction, retro, and retrofuturism / Pawe± Frelik -- Babylon revisited: alternate cosmologies from Farmer to Chiang / Gary K. Wolfe -- Science fiction as archive fever / Veronica Hollinger.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 279-298) and index.
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LCCN 2012050031
ISBN9780819573667 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0819573663 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780819573674 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0819573671 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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