Parabolas of science fiction / edited by Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger.
| Other author | Attebery, Brian, 1951- |
| Other author | Hollinger, Veronica. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2013] |
| Description | xv, 312 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-298) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012050031 |
| ISBN | 9780819573667 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0819573663 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780819573674 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0819573671 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |