Scotland as science fiction /
McCracken-Flesher, Caroline.
Lewisburg, Pa. ; Plymouth : Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Scotland's fantastic physics: energy transformation in MacDonald, Stevenson, Barrie, and Spark / Cairns Craig -- The other otherworld: didactic fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to J. Leslie Mitchell / J. Derrick McClure -- Allegory and cruelty: Gray's Lanark and Lindsay's A voyage to Arcturus / Ian Duncan -- Speculative nationality: 'Stands Scotland where it did?' in the Culture of Iain M. Banks / John Garrison -- Between enlightenment and the end of history: Ken MacLeod's Engines of light / Gavin Miller -- The cosmic (cosmo)polis in Naomi Mitchison's science fiction novels / Carla Sassi -- Non-violence, gender, and ecology: Margaret Elphinstone's The incomer and A sparrow's flight / Alison Phipps -- Past and future language: Matthew Fitt and Iain M. Banks / John Corbett -- Scottish poetry as science fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid, and Morgan's 'A home in space' / Alan Riach -- Brave new Scotland: science fiction without stereotypes in Fitt and Crumey / Lisa Harrison -- Alba Newton and Alasdair Gray / Matthew Wickman.
English literature
Science fiction, Scottish
Literature and society
National characteristics, Scottish, in literature.
Literature and history