Suicide and contemporary science fiction
By: Carlos Gutiérrez-Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781107100404
Subjects: Science fiction; History and criticism; Suicide in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.
Table of contents: title: Living to wonder: Darwin and H.G. Wells' The island of Doctor Moreau; title: Stranded contacts: the transformative potential of grief in Stanislaw Lem's Solaris; title: Stealing kinship: William Gibson's Neuromancer and artificial intelligence; title: Escaping one's self: narcissism and cycles of violence in inception and looper; title: Environmental adaptation: creative apocalypse in Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy; title: Afterword: Creative self-destruction and 9/11.