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Science fiction and the prediction of the future : essays on foresight and fallacy / edited by Gary Westfahl, Wong Kin Yuen, and Amy Kit-sze Chan.

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Science fiction and the prediction of the future : essays on foresight and fallacy / edited by Gary Westfahl, Wong Kin Yuen, and Amy Kit-sze Chan.
Publication
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Westfahl, Gary.
  • Yuen, Wong Kin.
  • Chan, Amy Kit-sze.
Description
vi, 263 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"Science fiction has always intrigued readers with depictions of an unforeseen future. Can the genre actually provide audiences with a glance into the world of tomorrow? This collection of fifteen international and interdisciplinary essays examines the genre's predictions and breaks new ground by considering the prophetic functions of science fiction films, as well as science fiction literature"--Provided by publisher.
Series Statement
Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 27
Uniform Title
Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 27.
Subject
  • Science fiction films > History and criticism
  • Science fiction > History and criticism
  • Future, The, in literature
  • Forecasting in literature
  • Future, The, in literature
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction: Of Futures Imagined, and Futures Inhabited; Part I: Cosmic Visions; 1. Pitfalls of Prophecy; 2. Emotional Dimensions of Transmimetic Fiction; 3. The Internet and the Anagogical Myths of Science Fiction; 4. Technobodies and the Anxieties of Performance; 5. Places of Alterity in Science Fiction; Part II: The Practice of Prophecy; 6. Future City Tokyo; 7. Rebooting "A Logic Named Joe"; 8. Victims of a Globalized, Radicalized, Technologized World, or, Why the Beatles Needed Help!; 9. "A Journey Beyond the Stars" 2001; 10. The Endless Odyssey; 11. Intercultural and Interface; 12. Post-Genre Cinemas and Post-Colonial Attitude : Hong Kong meets Paris; 13. Writing,Weaving, and Technology; 14. The Technological Contours of Contemporary Science Fiction, or, The Science Fiction That Science Fiction Doesn't See; 15. Thinking About the Smart Wireless World
ISBN
  • 9780786458417 (softcover : alk. paper)
  • 0786458410 (softcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010048100
OCLC
  • 664656916
  • SCSB-10949427
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library