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Science Fiction, Critical Frontiers

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Editors:
  1. Karen Sayer

    1. University of Luton, UK

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  2. John Moore

    1. University of Luton, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  3. Envisioning Alternatives: Reading sf

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. The Monsters of Botany and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

      • Carlos Seligo
      Pages 69-84

    3. Contending Forces: Racial and Sexual Narratives in Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren

      • Jeffrey A. Tucker
      Pages 85-99

    4. The Death of the Author and the Power of Addiction in Naked Lunch and Blade Runner

      • Gloria Pastorino
      Pages 100-115

    5. The Informatic Jeremiad: The Virtual Frontier and US Cyberculture

      • Salvatore Proietti
      Pages 116-126

    6. Doomsday Looms: Gudrun Pausewang’s Anti-Nuclear Novels

      • Susan Tebbutt
      Pages 127-139

    7. In-Between Subjects: C. L. Moore’s ‘No Woman Born’

      • Raffaella Baccolini
      Pages 140-153

    8. (Re)Productive Fictions; Reproduction, Embodiment and Feminist Science in Marge Piercy’s Science Fiction

      • Joan Haran
      Pages 154-168

    9. The Female State: Science Fiction Alternatives to the Patriarchy — Sheri Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country and Orson Scott Card’s Homecoming Series

      • Lorna Jowett
      Pages 169-192

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 193-219
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About this book

Science fiction has recently been identified as providing the narrative paradigm for postmodernity. This volume of essays combines theoretical discussions of the nature of science fiction, with specific studies of utopian and dystopian narratives. Alongside of this, the essays here address feminist and African American issues, the envisioning of radical alternative realities and futures, cyborgs, cyberpunk and cyber-space, age and aging, hybridity and monstrosity, and contemporary society and the postmodern condition.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Luton, UK

    Karen Sayer, John Moore

About the editors

Karen Sayer and John Moore are Lecturers in Literary Studies at the University of Luton.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Science Fiction, Critical Frontiers

  • Editors: Karen Sayer, John Moore

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62832-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-23112-5Published: 03 November 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-62832-2Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 219

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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