SciFi in the mind's eye : reading science through science fiction / edited by Margret Grebowicz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grebowicz, Margret, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, American--History and criticism.

Science fiction, American.

Science fiction--History and criticism.

Science fiction.

Literature and science.

Science and the arts.

Science--Social aspects.

Science.

Science--Social aspects--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

xx, 323 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Sci-fi in the mind's eye

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Open Court, [2007]

Summary:

What does our favorite science fiction tell us about the culture of science? What do stories of cyborg women and genetic engineering show us about how science and values interact and hoW science and politics affect each other? In SciFi in the Mind's Eye, leading scholars look at the way science fiction informs and inspires contemporary research in science and technology, and how scientific breakthroughs spur authors on to yet more creativ science fiction narratives. Alongside investigations into the meaning of science fiction, SciFi in the Mind's Eye gives us previously unpublished 'interventions' by acclaimed science fiction authors L. Timmel Duchamp, Nicola Griffith, Nancy Kress, Terry Bisson, and Stanislaw Lem.

Contents:

Race through the alpha quadrant : species and destiny on Star Trek / Harvey Cormier

The island of Dr. Moreau : interpretation of images of race and species / Naomi Zack

It's in the meat : science, fiction, and the politics of ignorance / Nancy McHugh

How to do things with ideas / L. Timmel Duchamp

Pygmalion's legacy : cyborg women in science fiction / Janet Vertesi

Tepper's republic : feminist separatism and the question of essence / Edrie Sobstyl

Clone mothers and others : uncanny families / Stephanie S. Turner

Embodying change : (r)evolutionary theories of an alien synthesis / Tess Williams

Identity and SF : story as science and fiction / Nicola Griffith

Sciencepunk : the influence of informed science fiction on virtual reality research / Jeremy N. Bailenson ... [et al.]

Fictitious contagions : computer viruses in the science fiction of the 1970s / Jussi Parikka

After the end of the world : critiques of technology in post-apocalypse literature / Andrew Pavelich

Ethics, science, and science fiction / Nancy Kress

Modest witnesses? feminist stories of science in fiction and theory / Helen Merrick

Cracking the code : genomics in documented fantasies and fantastic documentaries / Marina Levina

Knowing, being, and the reality police : science fiction as science studies / Dennis Desroches

Between garlic and eternity : fragments from an interview with Stanisław Lem / Ewa Lipska

Cognitive constraints on imagining other worlds / E. Thomas Lawson

After the space age : science, fiction, and possibility / Martin Parker

Learning from Ender's game : childhood, education, and war / Margret Grebowicz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812696301

0812696301

OCLC:

137331421