An edition of Edging into the future (2002)

Edging into the future

science fiction and contemporary cultural transformation

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An edition of Edging into the future (2002)

Edging into the future

science fiction and contemporary cultural transformation

'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.

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Language
English
Pages
278

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Cover of: Edging Into the Future
Edging Into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation
April 2002, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Cover of: Edging into the future
Edging into the future: science fiction and contemporary cultural transformation
2002, University of Pennsylvania Press, Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
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Cover of: Edging Into the Future
Edging Into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation
April 2002, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

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

Published in
Philadelphia

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.0876209
Library of Congress
PS374.S35 E37 2002, PS374.S35E37 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 278 p. ;
Number of pages
278

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3953990M
ISBN 10
0812236572, 0812218043
LCCN
2001052530
OCLC/WorldCat
48177370
LibraryThing
2825484
Goodreads
2127285
3660927

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Work ID
OL18354392W

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