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Title Scotland as science fiction / [edited by] Caroline McCracken-Flesher.

Publication Info. Lanham, MD : Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 197 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Scotland's fantastic physics: energy transformation in MacDonald, Stevenson, Barrie, and Spark / Cairns Craig -- The other otherworld: didactic fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to J. Leslie Mitchell / J. Derrick McClure -- Allegory and cruelty: Gray's Lanark and Lindsay's A voyage to Arcturus / Ian Duncan -- Speculative nationality: 'Stands Scotland where it did?' in the Culture of Iain M. Banks / John Garrison -- Between enlightenment and the end of history: Ken MacLeod's Engines of light / Gavin Miller -- The cosmic (cosmo)polis in Naomi Mitchison's science fiction novels / Carla Sassi -- Non-violence, gender, and ecology: Margaret Elphinstone's The incomer and A sparrow's flight / Alison Phipps -- Past and future language: Matthew Fitt and Iain M. Banks / John Corbett -- Scottish poetry as science fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid, and Morgan's 'A home in space' / Alan Riach -- Brave new Scotland: science fiction without stereotypes in Fitt and Crumey / Lisa Harrison -- Alba Newton and Alasdair Gray / Matthew Wickman.
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Subject English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Scottish authors.
Science fiction, Scottish -- History and criticism.
Science fiction, Scottish.
Literature and society -- Scotland -- History.
Literature and society.
Scotland.
History.
National characteristics, Scottish, in literature.
National characteristics, Scottish, in literature.
Literature and history -- Scotland.
Literature and history.
Scotland -- In literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Added Author McCracken-Flesher, Caroline.
Other Form: Print version: Scotland as science fiction. Lanham, MD : Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, ©2012 (DLC) 2011031545
ISBN 9781611483758 (electronic book)
1611483751 (electronic book)
9781611483741