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© 2012

Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction

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Part of the American Literature Readings in the 21st Century book series (ALTC)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction The Genre of the Non-Place: Science Fiction as Critical Theory

    1. Introduction The Genre of the Non-Place: Science Fiction as Critical Theory
      Gerald Alva Miller Jr.
      Pages 1-29

  3. Science Fictions of Estrangement

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 31-31
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    2. Variables of the Human: Gender and the Programmable Subject in Samuel R. Delany’s Triton
      Gerald Alva Miller Jr.
      Pages 33-64
    3. The Human as Desiring Machine: Anime Explorations of Disembodiment and Evolution
      Gerald Alva Miller Jr.
      Pages 65-96

  4. Science Fictions of the Present

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 97-97
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    2. The Eversion of the Virtual: Postmodernity and Control Societies in William Gibson’s Science Fictions of the Present
      Gerald Alva Miller Jr.
      Pages 99-128
    3. The Spectacle of Memory: Realism, Narrative, and Time Travel Cinema
      Gerald Alva Miller Jr.
      Pages 129-161

  5. Conclusion Beyond the Human: Ontogenesis, Technology, and the Posthuman in Kubrick and Clarke’s 2001

    1. Conclusion: Beyond the Human: Ontogenesis, Technology, and the Posthuman in Kubrick and Clarke’s 2001
      Gerald Alva Miller Jr.
      Pages 163-190
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 191-238
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About this book

Introduction

Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era.

Keywords

critical theory fiction gender Narrative realism technology time

About the authors

Gerald Alva Miller, Jr. is currently an English Instructor at Alamance Community College.

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