Parabolas of science fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Attebery, Brian, 1951- (Editor), Hollinger, Veronica (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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 / PaweÅ‚ Frelik
  • Babylon revisited: alternate cosmologies from Farmer to Chiang / Gary K. Wolfe
  • Science fiction as archive fever / Veronica Hollinger.