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Speaking science fiction : dialogues and interpretations / edited by Andy Sawyer and David Seed.
Van Pelt Library PN3433.5 .S64 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 21.
- Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction--History and criticism--Congresses.
- Science fiction.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 248 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2000.
- Contents:
- Speaking Science Fiction: Introduction / Brian W. Aldiss 1
- Who Speaks Science Fiction? / Andy Sawyer 5
- Science Fiction Dialogues / David Seed 11
- Speaking of Homeplace, Speaking from Someplace / Candas Jane Dorsey 21
- Speaking Science Fiction
- Out of Anxiety? / Josef Nesvadba 32
- Science Fiction as Language: Postmodernism and Mainstream: Some Reflections / Jose Manuel Mota 40
- 'Fantastic Dialogues': Critical Stories about Feminism and Science Fiction / Helen Merrick 52
- Vicissitudes of the Voice, Speaking Science Fiction / Roger Luckhurst 69
- 'A Language of the Future': Discursive Constructions of the Subject in A Clockwork Orange and Random Acts of Senseless Violence / Veronica Hollinger 82
- Speaking the Body: The Embodiment of 'Feminist' Cyberpunk / Bronwen Calvert, Sue Walsh 96
- Bodies that Speak Science Fiction: Stelarc
- Performance Artist 'Becoming Posthuman' / Ross Farnell 109
- Science Fiction and the Gender of Knowledge / Brian Attebery 131
- Corporatism and the Corporate Ethos in Robert Heinlein's 'The Roads Must Roll' / Farah Mendlesohn 144
- Convention and Displacement: Narrator, Narratee, and Virtual Reader in Science Fiction / Daniele Chatelain, George Slusser 158
- Aphasia and Mother Tongue: Themes of Language Creation and Silence in Women's Science Fiction / Nickianne Moody 179
- 'My Particular Virus': (Re-) Reading Jack Womack's Dryco Chronicles / Andrew M. Butler 188
- Aliens in the Fourth Dimension / Gwyneth Jones 201
- Freefall in Inner Space: From Crash to Crash Technology / Simon Sellars 214.
- Notes:
- Papers from a conference held in Liverpool in 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0853238340
- 0853238448
- OCLC:
- 45829293
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