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Speaking Science Fiction: Dialogues and Interpretations
| Author: | David Seed Andy Sawyer |
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Liverpool University Press, 2000 |
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| Book Type: | Non-Fiction |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
This wide-ranging volume explores the various dialogues that flourish between different aspects of science fiction: academics and fans, writers and readers; ideological stances and national styles; different interpretations of the genre; and how language and 'voices' are used in constructing SF. Introduced by the acclaimed novelist Brian W. Aldiss, the essays range from studies of writers such as Robert A. Heinlein, who are considered as the "heart" of the genre, to more contemporary writers such as Jack Womack and J. G. Ballard.
Contents:
- 1 - Introduction (Speaking Science Fiction) - essay by Brian W. Aldiss
- 5 - Who Speaks Science Fiction? - essay by Andy Sawyer
- 11 - Science Fiction Dialogues - essay by David Seed
- 21 - Speaking of HomePlace, Speaking from SomePlace - essay by Candas Jane Dorsey
- 32 - Speaking Science Fiction - Out of Anxiety? - essay by Josef Nesvadba
- 40 - Science Fiction as Language: Postmodernism and Mainstream: Some Reflections - essay by José Manuel Mota
- 52 - 'Fantastic Dialogues': Critical Stories about Feminism and Science Fiction - essay by Helen Merrick
- 69 - Vicissitudes of the Voice, Speaking Science Fiction - essay by Roger Luckhurst
- 82 - 'A Language of the Future': Discursive Constructions of the Subject in A Clockwork Orange and Random Acts of Senseless Violence - essay by Veronica Hollinger
- 96 - Speaking the Body: The Embodiment of 'Feminist' Cyberpunk - essay by Bronwen Calvert and Sue Walsh
- 109 - Bodies that Speak Science Fiction: Stelarc - Performance Artist 'Becoming Posthuman' - essay by Ross Farnell
- 131 - Science Fiction and the Gender of Knowledge - essay by Brian Attebery
- 144 - Corporatism and the Corporate Ethos in Robert Heinlein's 'The Roads Must Roll' - essay by Farah Mendlesohn
- 158 - Convention and Displacement: Narrator, Narratee, and Virtual Reader in Science Fiction - essay by George E. Slusser and Danièle Chatelain [as by Danièle Chatelain and George Slusser ]
- 179 - Aphasia and Mother Tongue: Themes of Language Creation and Silence in Women's Science Fiction - essay by Nickianne Moody
- 188 - 'My Particular Virus': (Re-)Reading Jack Womack's Dryco Chronicles - essay by Andrew M. Butler
- 201 - Aliens in the Fourth Dimension - (1996) - essay by Gwyneth Jones
- 216 - Freefall in Inner Space: From Crash to Crash Technology - Simon Sellars - shortfiction by Simon Sellars
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