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Star warriors of the modern Raj : materiality, mythology and technology of Indian science fiction / Sami Ahmad Khan.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Khan, Sami Ahmad, 1985- author.
- Series:
- New Dimensions in Science Fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction.
- Science fiction, Indic (English)--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- A path-breaking study of India's Science Fiction, which investigates how mythology, ideology and technology shape contemporary SF.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Series Editors' Preface
- Contents
- Author's Note: A Swastika in a Red Dusk
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Part 1: SF-101
- 1. Whoever Loses, SF Wins
- 2. INS Forward unto Delhi
- 3. Prayers in the Rain
- Part 2: Materiality
- Part 2 Prologue: The Altar of Alterity: The Others of ISFE
- 4. The Civilisational Other
- 5. The Social Other
- 6. The Gender(ed) Other
- Part 2 Epilogue: Materiality Strikes Back
- Part 3: Mythology
- Part 3 Prologue: Hey Bhagwan, the ET has Landed!
- 7. Aliens <
- Gods: Gods as Extraterrestrials (From Other Planets)
- 8. Gods >
- Time: Gods as Socio‑political Indictments (From Other Temporal Locations)
- 9. Technology + Gods: Gods as Hyperintelligences (From Other Technological Axes)
- 10. Mythic ⇋ Scientific
- Part 3 Epilogue: Revenge of the Myth
- Part 4: Technology1
- Part 4 Prologue: Beat, Prey, Love
- 11. Genetic Manipulations: Genetic Engineering and Natural Selection in The Beast with Nine Billion Feet, The Butterfly Effect and 'The Tide Turns Again'
- 12. Cyberistan: Digital is the New Real in Domechild, 'Catatonic' and 'The Coward'
- 13. CBRN Warfare: Living the Apocalypse in 'Gandhi Toxin', 'Exile' and 'Taking a Shortcut'
- 14. Alien Disruptions1: ET 'Conservation Laws', 'Peripeteia' and 'The Tetrahedron'
- 15. Environmental Degradation: Global Climate Change in 'Rain', 'Sharing Air' and Leila
- Part 4 Epilogue: The Technology Awakens
- Part 5: Conclusion
- 16. ISFE: A New Hope
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Glossary
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78683-763-3
- OCLC:
- 1257667309
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