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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Yesterday’s Tomorrows
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Otherspace
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Afterlives
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Back Matter
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"Whereas science fiction asks What if? questions about technology and the human future, Youngquist asks What if? questions about the genre itself. What if the essential discourse of science fiction is less apparent than commonly supposed? What if, beyond their overt extrapolations, our most valuable SF authors have been concomitantly conducting Gedanken experiments designed to illuminate capitalism s discontents, the semiotics of eroticism, the limits of consensus reality, the mutability of the body, and the intricate web of power relationships that constitute postindustrial society? Youngquist s insightful and philosophically grounded answers will beguile students of Mary Shelley, Alfred Bester, J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Samuel R. Delany, William Gibson, Octavia Butler, and a dozen other supreme practitioners of speculative literature." - James Morrow, author of The Last Witchfinder and Shambling Towards Hiroshima
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cyberfiction
Book Subtitle: After the Future
Authors: Paul Youngquist
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230106215
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62151-0Published: 14 May 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-38348-1Published: 14 May 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10621-5Published: 29 March 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 253
Topics: Fiction, Literary History, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature