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Edging into the future : science fiction and contemporary cultural transformation / edited by Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon.
| Other author | Hollinger, Veronica. |
| Other author | Gordon, Joan, 1947- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2002. |
| Description | viii, 278 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Evaporating genre: strategies of dissolution in the postmodern fantastic / Gary K. Wolfe -- Omniphage: rock'n'roll and avant-pop science fiction / Lance Olsen -- Synthespians, virtual humans, and hypermedia: emerging contours of post-SF film / Brooks Landon -- Staying with the body: narratives of the posthuman in contemporary science fiction / Jenny Wolmark -- "But aren't those just ... you know, metaphors?" Postmodern figuration in the science fiction of James Morrow and Gwyneth Jones / Brian Attebery -- Sex/uality and the figure of the of the hermaphrodite in science fiction; or, the revenge of Herculine Barbin / Wendy Pearson -- Mutant youth: posthuman fantasies and high-tech consumption in 1990s science fiction / Rob Latham -- "Going postal": rage, science fiction, and the ends of the American subject / Roger Luckhurst -- Apocalypse coma / Veronica Hollinger -- Kairos: the enchanted loom / Gwyneth Jones -- Dead letters and their inheritors: ecospasmic crashes and the postmortal condition in Brian Stableford's histories of the future / Brian Stableford -- Utopia, genocide, and the other / Joan Gordon -- Dis-imagined communities: science fiction the the future of nations / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-266) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001052530 |
| ISBN | 0812236572 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0812218043 (paper : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS374.S35 E37 2002 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |