Edging into the future
Subtitle: science fiction and contemporary cultural transformation
By: edited by Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon.
Contributors: Hollinger, Veronica.; Gordon, Joan, 1947-
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press; Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Science fiction, American -- History and criticism; Science fiction, English -- History and criticism; Popular culture -- English-speaking countries
Description: 'Edging into the Future' explores contemporary science fiction literature and media as imaginative expressions of an already science-fictional present and as literal descriptions of postmodern culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: Evaporating genre : strategies of dissolution in the postmodern fantastic / Gary K. Wolfe; title: Omniphage : rock'n'roll and avant-pop science fiction / Lance Olsen; title: Synthespians, virtual humans, and hypermedia : emerging contours of post-SF film / Brooks Landon; title: Staying with the body : narratives of the posthuman in contemporary science fiction / Jenny Wolmark; title: "But aren't those just ... you know, metaphors?" Postmodern figuration in the science fiction of James Morrow and Gwyneth Jones / Brian Attebery; title: Sex/uality and the figure of the of the hermaphrodite in science fiction ; or, the revenge of Herculine Barbin / Wendy Pearson; title: Mutant youth : posthuman fantasies and high-tech consumption in 1990s science fiction / Rob Latham; title: "Going postal" : rage, science fiction, and the ends of the American subject / Roger Luckhurst; title: Apocalypse coma / Veronica Hollinger; title: Kairos : the enchanted loom / Gwyneth Jones; title: Dead letters and their inheritors : ecospasmic crashes and the postmortal condition in Brian Stableford's histories of the future / Brian Stableford; title: Utopia, genocide, and the other / Joan Gordon; title: Dis-imagined communities : science fiction the the future of nations / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.