Inhalt: | Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 DEFINITIONS AND BOUNDARIES -- 1 Editorial: A new sort of magazine / Hugo Gernsback -- 2 Preface to The Scientific Romances / H. G. Wells -- 3 On the writing of speculative fiction / Robert A. Heinlein -- 4 What do you mean: Science? Fiction? / Judith Merril -- 5 Preface to Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology / Bruce Sterling -- 6 Cybernetic deconstructions: Cyberpunk and postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger -- 7 The many deaths of science fiction: A polemic / Roger Luckhurst -- 8 On defining sf, or not: Genre theory, sf, and history / John Rieder -- Genre as a historical process -- Categorization and communities of practice -- Recommended further reading -- PART 2 STRUCTURE AND FORM -- 9 Which way to inner space? / J. G. Ballard -- 10 About 5,750 words / Samuel R. Delany -- 11 On the poetics of the science fiction genre / Darko Suvin -- Science fiction as fiction (Estrangement) -- Science fiction as cognition (critique and science) -- Science fiction as a literary genre (functions and models) -- For a poetics of science fiction (summation and anticipation) -- 12 The absent paradigm: An introduction to the semiotics of science fiction / Marc Angenot : 1 Sign/referent/paradigm ; 2 Neologisms and fictive words ; 3 Exolinguistics ; 4 From the actual syntagm to the missing paradigm ; 5 The missing paradigm, the empirical paradigm, and the referent -- 13 Reading sf as a mega-text / Damien Broderick -- 14 Time travel and the mechanics of narrative / David Wittenberg : First reading: Fabula and Sjuzhet in Up the Line ; Second reading: Psychohistoriography in Behold the Man ; Third reading: The ontology of the event in "All the Myriad Ways" ; Contexts, methods, directions ; Genre history ; Recommended further reading -- PART 3 IDEOLOGY AND WORLD VIEW -- 15 Mutation or death! / John B. Michel -- 16 The imagination of disaster / Susan Sontag -- 17 The image of women in science fiction / Joanna Russ : Intergalactic suburbia ; Down among the he-men ; Equal is as equal does ; Matriarchy ; Women's fiction: Potpourri ; An odd equality -- 18 Progress versus Utopia - or, can we imagine the future? / Fredric Jameson -- 19 Science fiction and critical theory /Carl Freedman : 1 Definitions ; 2 Articulations ; 3 Excursuses ; 4 Conclusions -- 20 Alien cryptographies: The view from queer / Wendy Pearson : 1 Introduction: Fear of a queer galaxy ; 2 (E)strange(d) fictions: Who goes there? ; 3 Alien nation: Visualizing the (in)visible ; 4 Becoming alien, becoming homosexual: From cyptography to cartography ; 5 Conclusion: An alien cartography -- 21 The women history doesn't see: Recovering midcentury women's sf as a literature of social critique / Lisa Yaszek : Recovering the domestic decades in feminist history and feminist science fiction studies ; Midcentury peace activism and SF's nuclear holocaust narrative ; The civil rights movement and SF's "encounter with the alien other" ; Conclusion: Feminist history and feminist SF studies reconsidered -- PART 4 - THE NONHUMAN -- 22 Author's introduction to Frankenstein -- 23 The android and the human -- 24 A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century : An ironic dream of a common language for women in the integrated circuit ; Fractured identities ; The informatics of domination ; Women in the integrated circuit ; Cyborgs: a myth of political identity -- 25 Virtual bodies and flickering signifiers : Signifying the processes of production ; Information narratives and bodies of information ; Functionalities of narrative -- 26 The coming technological singularity: How to survive in a post-human era : What is the singularity? ; Can the singularity be avoided? ; Other paths to the singularity: Intelligence Amplification ; Strong superhumanity and the best we can ask for -- 27 Aliens in the fourth dimension : When two worlds collide ; Interview with the alien ; Speech and silence ; Convergent evolution -- 28 Technofetishism and the uncanny desires of A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots) : Alt.sex.fetish.robots ; But who is she really? ; The uncanny gynoid ; Mad love ; Eye robot -- 29 Animal alterity: Science fiction and human-animal studies -- PART 5 - RACE AND THE LEGACY OF COLONIALISM : 30 Science fiction and empire : SF and imperialism ; SF and empire -- 31 Further considerations on Afrofuturism : The war of countermemory ; The founding trauma ; Futurism fatigue ; Control through prediction ; SF capital ; The futures industry ; Market dystopia ; The museological turn ; Proleptic intervention ; Black Atlantic sonic process ; Afrophilia in excelsis ; The cosmogenetic moment ; Identification code unidentified ; The implications of revisionism ; The uses of alienation ; The extraterrestrial turn ; Temporal switchback ; Black-Atlantean mythos -- 32 Indigenous scientific literacies in Nalo Hopkinson's ceremonial worlds : Indigenous scientific literacies today ; Hinte songs, Maroon "break-aways," and oral traditions: The transmissions of indigenous scientific literacy ; "Lizards in trees feed me and teach me how to be invisible" ; "Take one, give back two" ; "Letting the sky into the bush" ; Ceremonial worlds -- 33 Biotic invasions: Ecological imperialism in new wave science fiction -- 34 Alien/Asian: Imagining the racialized future -- 35 Report from planet midnight : A reluctant ambassador from the planet of midnight ; Afterword -- 36 Future histories and cyborg labor: Reading borderlands science fiction after NAFTA. Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as: ·Definitions and boundaries of the genre ·The many forms of science fiction, from time travel to'inner space'·Ideology and identity: from utopian fantasy to feminist, queer and environmental readings ·The non-human: androids, aliens, cyborgs and animals ·Race and the legacy of colonialism The volume also features annotated guides to further reading on these topics. Includes writings by: Marc Angenot, J.G. Ballard, Damien Broderick, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, Grace Dillon, Kodwo Eshun, Carl Freedman, Allison de Fren, Hugo Gernsback, Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, Robert A. Heinlein, Nalo Hopkinson, Veronica Hollinger, Fredric Jameson, Gwyneth Jones, Rob Latham, Roger Luckhurst, Judith Merril, John B. Michel, Wendy Pearson, John Rieder, Lysa Rivera, Joanna Russ, Mary Shelley, Stephen Hong Sohn, Susan Sontag, Bruce Sterling, Darko Suvin, Vernor Vinge, Sherryl Vint, H.G. Wells, David Wittenberg and Lisa Yaszek |
