Parabolas of science fiction /
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| Language: | English |
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Middletown, Connecticut :
Wesleyan University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Science fictional parabolas: jazz, geometry, and generation starships / Brian Attebery
- Dancing with Scheherazade: some reflections in the Djinni's glass / Terry Dowling
- Breaking the frame / Graham Sleight
- Katherine MacLean's short science fiction and cytology: science as parabola / Jane Donawerth
- Second contact: the first contact story in Latin American science fiction / Rachel Haywood Ferreira
- Parabolas of SFQ: Canadian science fiction in French and the making of a "national" subgenre / Amy J. Ransom
- The domestic SF parabola / Lisa Yaszek
- Mad scientists, chimps, and mice with human brains: collapsing boundaries in science fiction / L. Timmel Duchamp
- Coded transmissions: gender and genre reception in The matrix / David M. Higgins
- The mad scientist, the failed experiment, and the queer family of man: Sirius, Frankenstein, and the SF stockroom / John Rieder
- Back to the filthy workshop: "faithful" film adaptations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Nicholas Ruddick
- The future of the past: science fiction, retro, and retrofuturism / Paweł Frelik
- Babylon revisited: alternate cosmologies from Farmer to Chiang / Gary K. Wolfe
- Science fiction as archive fever / Veronica Hollinger.