Scotland as science fiction
By: [edited by] Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Publisher: Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group; RLPG - Bucknell UP
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781611483741; 9781611483758
Subjects: English literature; Literature and history; Literature and society; History and criticism; Scottish authors; National characteristics, Scottish, in literature; In literature; Scottish Science fiction; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Scotland's fantastic physics: energy transformation in MacDonald, Stevenson, Barrie, and Spark / Cairns Craig; title: The other otherworld: didactic fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to J. Leslie Mitchell / J. Derrick McClure; title: Allegory and cruelty: Gray's Lanark and Lindsay's A voyage to Arcturus / Ian Duncan; title: Speculative nationality: 'Stands Scotland where it did?' in the Culture of Iain M. Banks / John Garrison; title: Between enlightenment and the end of history: Ken MacLeod's Engines of light / Gavin Miller; title: The cosmic (cosmo)polis in Naomi Mitchison's science fiction novels / Carla Sassi; title: Non-violence, gender, and ecology: Margaret Elphinstone's The incomer and A sparrow's flight / Alison Phipps; title: Past and future language: Matthew Fitt and Iain M. Banks / John Corbett; title: Scottish poetry as science fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid, and Morgan's 'A home in space' / Alan Riach; title: Brave new Scotland: science fiction without stereotypes in Fitt and Crumey / Lisa Harrison; title: Alba Newton and Alasdair Gray / Matthew Wickman.