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Deconstructing the Starships: Science, Fiction and Reality
| Author: | Gwyneth Jones |
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Liverpool University Press, 1999 |
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| Book Type: | Non-Fiction |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
The subject matter of this collection is varied, but displays Jones' stance as a practicing SF writer and a feminist; the writing is characterized by both an incisive engagement with the texts and a refusal to dress that engagement in jargon. This very readable book provides insight into the work of one of the UK's most interesting writers and presents strong - sometimes even subversive - views of a range of modern SF and fantasy.
Contents:
- vii - Foreword (Deconstructing the Starships) - essay
- 3 - Introduction (Deconstructing the Starships) - (1988) - essay
- 9 - Getting Rid of the Brand Names - (1987) - essay
- 22 - The Lady and the Scientists - (1990) - essay
- 35 - Dreamer: An Exercise in Extrapolation 1989-2019 - (unknown) - essay
- 60 - My Crazy Uncles: C. S. Lewis and Tolkien as Writers for Children - (1995) - essay
- 77 - Fools: The Neuroscience of Cyberspace - (1997) - essay
- 91 - Trouble (Living in the Machine) - (1994) - essay
- 99 - Sex: The Brains of Female Hyena Twins - (1994) - essay
- 108 - Aliens in the Fourth Dimension - (1996) - essay
- 123 - Review: In the Chinks of the World Machine by Sarah LeFanu - (1988) - review
- 131 - Consider Her Ways: The Fiction of C. J. Cherryh - (unknown) - essay
- 141 - Review: Alien Sex by Ellen Datlow - (1990) - review
- 146 - Review: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - (1992) - review
- 153 - Review: Glory Season by David Brin - (1993) - review
- 156 - Review: Virtual Light by William Gibson - review
- 161 - Review: A Million Open Doors by John Barnes - review
- 168 - Review: Winterlong by Elizabeth Hand - review
- 178 - Review: Plague of Angels by Sheri S. Tepper - review
- 184 - Review: The Furies by Suzy McKee Charnas - (1994) - review
- 192 - Review: Alien Influences by Kristine Kathryn Rusch - review
- 199 - No Man's Land: Feminised Landscapes in the Utopian Fiction of Ursula Le Guin - (1996) - essay
- 209 - Notes (Deconstructing the Starships) - essay
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