Research Catalog

Title

Edging into the future : science fiction and contemporary cultural transformation / edited by Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon.

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hollinger, Veronica.
• Gordon, Joan, 1947-

Description

viii, 278 pages; 24 cm

Summary

'Edging into the Future' explores contemporary science fiction literature and media as imaginative expressions of an already science-fictional present and as literal descriptions of postmodern culture.

Subject

• Science fiction, American > History and criticism
• Science fiction, English > History and criticism
• Popular culture > English-speaking countries
• Popular culture > United States
• Popular culture > Great Britain
• Popular culture
• Science fiction, American
• Science fiction, English
• Englisch
• Popkultur
• Science-Fiction-Literatur
• Science-Fiction
• Science fiction > amerikanische
• Science fiction > englische
• United States
• Great Britain
• English-speaking countries
• USA
• Englisch

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-266) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 0812236572
• 9780812236576
• 0812218043
• 9780812218046

LCCN

2001052530

OCLC

• ocm48177370
• 48177370
• SCSB-1251047

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library