Science fiction : stories and contexts

Science fiction Stories and contexts

Book - 2009

A selection of fiction by classic and emerging writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, grouped into major themes: alien encounters, artificial life, time, utopias and dystopias, disasters and apocalypses, and evolutions. The stories are complemented by contextual documents that suggest the scholarly, theoretical, and historical currents that drove the development of the genre.

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Subjects
Science fiction.
Science fiction > History and criticism.
Published
New York : Bedford/St. Martins c2009.
Language
English
Other Authors
Heather Masri (-)
Physical Description
xix, 1242 p. ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 11-16) and index.
ISBN
9780312450151
  • Preface
  • Chronological
  • A Brief Introduction to Science Fiction and Its History
  • A Selective Guide to Science Fiction Research
  • 1. Alien Encounters
  • Mars Is Heaven!(1948)
  • When I Was Miss Dow(1966)
  • Vaster Than Empires and More Slow(1971)
  • Bloodchild(1984)
  • Wang's Carpets(1995)
  • Slow Life(2002)
  • Critical Contexts for Alien Encounters
  • The Shadow(1951)
  • The Fact of Blackness(1952)
  • 2. Artificial Life
  • The Sandman(1816) Mary Shelley, fromFrankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus(1818; 1831)
  • R.U.R.(1921)
  • Liar!(1941)
  • Second Variety(1953)
  • "Baby, You Were Great!" (1967)
  • The Girl Who Was Plugged In(1973)
  • Burning Chrome(1985)
  • Nekropolis(1994)
  • The Algorithms for Love(2004)
  • Critical Contexts for Artificial Life
  • The Uncanny(1919; 1924)
  • The Precession of Simulacra(1981)
  • "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist
  • Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985; 1991)
  • 3. Time
  • Master Zacharius(1854)
  • The Gostak and the Doshes(1930)
  • Vintage Season(1946)
  • "All You Zombies -- " (1959)
  • When We Went to See the End of the World(1972)
  • The Lucky Strike(1984)
  • At the Rialto(1989)
  • Story of Your Life(1998)
  • Start the Clock(2004)
  • Critical Contexts on Time Jean-Paul Sartre, fromBeing and Nothingness(1943)
  • The Historian and His Facts(1961)
  • To Build a Time Machine(1994)
  • 4. Utopias and Dystopias Yevgeny Zamyatin, fromWe(1921)
  • The Weapon Shop(1942)
  • Country of the Kind(1955)
  • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman(1965)
  • When It Changed(1972)
  • The Persistence of Vision(1978)
  • Kirinyaga(1988)
  • Dead Space for the Unexpected(1994)
  • Something to Hitch Meat to(2001)
  • Critical Contexta for Utopias and Dystopias

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