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Karen Sayer (Lecturer in Literary Studies)⁰,
John Moore (Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies)¹

Karen Sayer
1. University of Luton, UK
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xiii

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Positioning sf Criticism
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 1-1
  
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2. Novum Is as Novum Does
  
  Darko Suvin
  
  Pages 3-22
3. Science Fiction: Metaphor, Myth or Prophecy?
  
  Patrick Parrinder
  
  Pages 23-34
4. Modernity as a Project and as Self-Criticism: The Historical Dialogue between Science Fiction and Utopia
  
  Gregory Paschalidis
  
  Pages 35-47
5. ‘Dare to struggle, dare to win’: On Science Fiction, Totality and Agency in the 1990s
  
  Tom Moylan
  
  Pages 48-65
Envisioning Alternatives: Reading sf
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 67-67
  
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2. The Monsters of Botany and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
  
  Carlos Seligo
  
  Pages 69-84
3. Contending Forces: Racial and Sexual Narratives in Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren
  
  Jeffrey A. Tucker
  
  Pages 85-99
4. The Death of the Author and the Power of Addiction in Naked Lunch and Blade Runner
  
  Gloria Pastorino
  
  Pages 100-115
5. The Informatic Jeremiad: The Virtual Frontier and US Cyberculture
  
  Salvatore Proietti
  
  Pages 116-126
6. Doomsday Looms: Gudrun Pausewang’s Anti-Nuclear Novels
  
  Susan Tebbutt
  
  Pages 127-139
7. In-Between Subjects: C. L. Moore’s ‘No Woman Born’
  
  Raffaella Baccolini
  
  Pages 140-153
8. (Re)Productive Fictions; Reproduction, Embodiment and Feminist Science in Marge Piercy’s Science Fiction
  
  Joan Haran
  
  Pages 154-168
9. The Female State: Science Fiction Alternatives to the Patriarchy — Sheri Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country and Orson Scott Card’s Homecoming Series
  
  Lorna Jowett
  
  Pages 169-192
Back Matter

Pages 193-219

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About this book

Science fiction has recently been identified as providing the narrative paradigm for postmodernity. This volume of essays combines theoretical discussions of the nature of science fiction, with specific studies of utopian and dystopian narratives. Alongside of this, the essays here address feminist and African American issues, the envisioning of radical alternative realities and futures, cyborgs, cyberpunk and cyber-space, age and aging, hybridity and monstrosity, and contemporary society and the postmodern condition.

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University of Luton, UK

Karen Sayer, John Moore

About the editors

Karen Sayer and John Moore are Lecturers in Literary Studies at the University of Luton.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Science Fiction, Critical Frontiers
Editors: Karen Sayer, John Moore
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62832-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-23112-5Published: 03 November 2000
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-62832-2Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 219
Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

Front Matter

Positioning sf Criticism

Front Matter

Novum Is as Novum Does

Science Fiction: Metaphor, Myth or Prophecy?

Modernity as a Project and as Self-Criticism: The Historical Dialogue between Science Fiction and Utopia

‘Dare to struggle, dare to win’: On Science Fiction, Totality and Agency in the 1990s

Envisioning Alternatives: Reading sf

Front Matter

The Monsters of Botany and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Contending Forces: Racial and Sexual Narratives in Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren

The Death of the Author and the Power of Addiction in Naked Lunch and Blade Runner

The Informatic Jeremiad: The Virtual Frontier and US Cyberculture

Doomsday Looms: Gudrun Pausewang’s Anti-Nuclear Novels

In-Between Subjects: C. L. Moore’s ‘No Woman Born’

(Re)Productive Fictions; Reproduction, Embodiment and Feminist Science in Marge Piercy’s Science Fiction

The Female State: Science Fiction Alternatives to the Patriarchy — Sheri Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country and Orson Scott Card’s Homecoming Series

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