Speaking science fiction
Subtitle: dialogues and interpretations
By: edited by Andy Sawyer and David Seed.
Contributors: Sawyer, Andy.; Seed, David.
Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ;; [21]
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: This volume explores the various dialogues that flourish between different aspects of science fiction: academics and fans; writers and readers; ideological stances and national styles; different interpretations of the genre; and how language and voices are used in constructing science fiction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers from a conference held in Liverpool in 1996.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Speaking Science Fiction: Introduction - Brian W. Aldiss; title: Who Speaks Science Fiction? - Andy Sawyer; title: Science Fiction Dialogues - David Seed; title: Speaking of Homeplace, Speaking from Someplace; title: - Candas Jane Dorsey; title: Speaking Science Fiction-Out of Anxiety? - Josef Nesvadba; title: Science Fiction as Language: Postmodernism and Mainstream:; title: Some Reflections - Jose' Manuel Mota; title: 'Fantastic Dialogues': Critical Stories about Feminism and Science; title: Fiction - Helen Merrick; title: Vicissitudes of the Voice, Speaking Science Fiction - Roger Luckhurst; title: 'A Language of the Future': Discursive Constructions of the Subject; title: in A Clockwork Orange and Random Acts of Senseless Violence; title: - Veronica Hollinger; title: Speaking the Body: The Embodiment of 'Feminist' Cyberpunk; title: - Bronwen Calvert and Sue Walsh; title: Bodies that Speak Sdence Fiction: Stelarc-Performance Artist; title: 'Becoming Posthuman' - Ross Farnell; title: Science Fiction and the Gender of Knowledge - Brian Attebery; title: Corporatism and the Corporate Ethos in Robert Heinlein's; title: 'The Roads Must Roll' - Farah Mendlesohn; title: Convention and Displacement: Narrator, Narratee, and Virtual; title: Reader in Science Fiction - Daniele Chatelain and George Slusser; title: Aphasia and Mother Tongue: Themes of Language Creation and; title: Silence in Women's Science Fiction - Nickianne Moody; title: 'My Particular Virus': (Re-)Reading Jack Womack's Dryco; title: Chronicles - Andrew M. Butler; title: Aliens in the Fourth Dimension - Gwyneth Jones; title: Freefall in Inner Space: From Crash to Crash Technology; title: - Simon Sellars; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Index.