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Science fiction and speculative fiction : challenging genres / edited by P.L. Thomas, Furman University, Greenville, SC, USA

Published
Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 218 pages).
Additional Creators
Thomas, P. L. (Paul Lee), 1961-
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Language Note
English.
Contents
A case for SF and speculative fiction / P.L. Thomas -- SF and speculative novels / Michael Svec and Mike Winiski -- SF novels and sociological experimentation / Aaron Passell -- "Peel[ing] apart layers of meaning" in SF short fiction / Jennifer Lyn Dorsey -- Reading alien suns / John Hoben -- Singularity, cyborgs, drones, replicants and avatars / Leila E. Villaverde and Roymieco A. Carter -- Throbling notions of reality in Caprica / Erin Brownlee Dell -- "I try to remember who I am and who I am not" / Sean P. Connors -- "it's bird ... it's plane ... it's ... comic book in the classroom?" / Sean P. Connors -- The enduring power of SF, speculative and dystopian fiction / P.L. Thomas -- Author biographies.
Summary
Why did Kurt Vonnegut shun being labeled a writer of science fiction (SF)? How did Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin find themselves in a public argument about the nature of SF? This volume explores the broad category of SF as a genre, as one that challenges readers, viewers, teachers, and scholars, and then as one that is often itself challenged (as the authors in the collection do). SF, this volume acknowledges, is an enduring argument. The collected chapters include work from teachers, scholars, artists, and a wide range of SF fans, offering a powerful and unique blend of voices to scholarship about SF as well as examinations of the place for SF in the classroom. Among the chapters, discussions focus on SF within debates for and against SF, the history of SF, the tensions related to SF and other genres, the relationship between SF and science, SF novels, SF short fiction, SF film and visual forms (including TV), SF young adult fiction, SF comic books and graphic novels, and the place of SF in contemporary public discourse. The unifying thread running through the volume, as with the series, is the role of critical literacy and pedagogy, and how SF informs both as essential elements of liberatory and democratic education.
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ISBN
9789462093805 (electronic bk.)
9462093806 (electronic bk.)
9462093784
9789462093782
9462093792
9789462093799
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Springer eBooks
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