| Description |
viii, 278 pages ; 24 cm |
| 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 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index. |
| Subject |
Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, American. |
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Science fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, English. |
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Popular culture -- English-speaking countries.
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Popular culture. |
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English-speaking countries. |
| Added Author |
Hollinger, Veronica.
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Gordon, Joan, 1947-
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| ISBN |
0812218043 paperback alkaline paper |
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0812236572 hardback alkaline paper |
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