Overview
- Examines important transcultural concerns of German science fiction including climate change and posthumanism
- Considers German interventions into established forms in the genre especially boundaries of utopia and dystopia
- Highlights German science fiction’s contribution to global science fiction
Part of the book series: Studies in Global Science Fiction (SGSF)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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New Identities
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New Boundaries
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Keywords
About this book
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lars Schmeink is Research Fellow at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany. For 2022, he has received a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Leeds, UK. He is a researcher in the FutureWork research project of the German Ministry of Education at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is the founder of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung and has served as president of the board from 2010 to 2019. He has published widely on science fiction, the fantastic, and popular culture, including The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture (co-editor, 2020); Cyberpunk and Visual Culture (co-editor, 2018); Biopunk Dystopias: Genetic Engineering, Society, and Science Fiction (2016), Collision of Realities (co-editor, 2012), and Fremde Welten (co-editor, 2012).
Ingo Cornils is Professor of German Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published widely onscience fiction, edited two special issues of the academic journal literatur für leser on German language science fiction co-edited, with Ricarda Vidal, the volume Alternative Worlds: Blue-Sky Thinking since 1900 (2015), and authored of the monograph Beyond Tomorrow: German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Century (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction
Editors: Lars Schmeink, Ingo Cornils
Series Title: Studies in Global Science Fiction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95963-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95962-3Published: 23 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95965-4Published: 23 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-95963-0Published: 22 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2569-8826
Series E-ISSN: 2569-8834
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 317
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Fiction, European Literature, European Cinema and TV, History, general, History of Germany and Central Europe