The Wesleyan Anthology Of Science Fiction

Author : Arthur B. Evans
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780819569554

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The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction by Arthur B. Evans Pdf

The best single-volume anthology of science fiction available—includes online teacher's guide The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years' worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty-two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher's guide at http://sfanthology.site.wesleyan.edu/ accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world's most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.

Author : Arthur B. Evans,Istvan Csicsery-Ronay (Jr.),Joan Gordon
Publisher : Wesleyan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 0819569542

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The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction by Arthur B. Evans,Istvan Csicsery-Ronay (Jr.),Joan Gordon Pdf

The best single-volume anthology of science fiction available--includes online teacher's guide

Author : Andrea L. Bell,Yolanda Molina-Gavilán
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0819566349

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Cosmos Latinos by Andrea L. Bell,Yolanda Molina-Gavilán Pdf

The first-ever collection of Latin American science fiction in English.

Author : Howard Bruce Franklin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813521521

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Future Perfect by Howard Bruce Franklin Pdf

Critics, science fiction writers, scientists, and scholars throughout the world hailed the original publication of Future Perfect in 1966 as a book that would transform our evaluation of science fiction and our understanding of American culture. The praise has proved well founded, for Future Perfect has been more responsible than any other single work for the recognition of the value and significance of science fiction.

Author : Brian Atterby,Veronica Hollinger
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780819573681

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Parabolas of Science Fiction by Brian Atterby,Veronica Hollinger Pdf

Essays about the inherently collaborative nature of science fiction As a geometric term, parabola suggests a narrative trajectory or story arc. In science fiction, parabolas take us from the known to the unknown. More concrete than themes, more complex than motifs, parabolas are combinations of meaningful setting, character, and action that lend themselves to endless redefinition and jazzlike improvisation. The fourteen original essays in this collection explore how the field of science fiction has developed as a complex of repetitions, influences, arguments, and broad conversations. This particular feature of the genre has been the source of much critical commentary, most notably through growing interest in the "sf megatext," a continually expanding archive of shared images, situations, plots, characters, settings, and themes found in science fiction across media. Contributors include Jane Donawerth, Terry Dowling, L. Timmel Duchamp, Rachel Haywood Ferreira, Pawel Frelik, David M. Higgins, Amy J. Ransom, John Rieder, Nicholas Ruddick, Graham Sleight, Gary K. Wolfe, and Lisa Yaszek.

Author : Franz Rottensteiner
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0819568317

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The Black Mirror and Other Stories by Franz Rottensteiner Pdf

Handsomely equipped with a comprehensive introductory historical essay, editor's notes and selected bibliography, this distinguished anthology is a model of genre research. These previously untranslated stories, published from 1871 onward, offer reading virtually unknown to most American (and many German) readers. Some authors combine scientific and philosophical issues, like Kurd Lasswitz in his witty tale "To the Absolute Zero of Existence: A Story from 2371, " while others, as in Erik Simon's 1983 title story, pose psychological puzzles involving alien phenomena. Though the earlier stories in particular demand painstaking reading, all of them repay it with rewarding insights into German and Austrian culture and the many possible uses and misuses of science.

Author : Rob Latham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474248631

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Science Fiction Criticism by Rob Latham Pdf

Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as: ·Definitions and boundaries of the genre ·The many forms of science fiction, from time travel to 'inner space' ·Ideology and identity: from utopian fantasy to feminist, queer and environmental readings ·The non-human: androids, aliens, cyborgs and animals ·Race and the legacy of colonialism The volume also features annotated guides to further reading on these topics. Includes writings by: Marc Angenot, J.G. Ballard, Damien Broderick, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, Grace Dillon, Kodwo Eshun, Carl Freedman, Allison de Fren, Hugo Gernsback, Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, Robert A. Heinlein, Nalo Hopkinson, Veronica Hollinger, Fredric Jameson, Gwyneth Jones, Rob Latham, Roger Luckhurst, Judith Merril, John B. Michel, Wendy Pearson, John Rieder, Lysa Rivera, Joanna Russ, Mary Shelley, Stephen Hong Sohn, Susan Sontag, Bruce Sterling, Darko Suvin, Vernor Vinge, Sherryl Vint, H.G. Wells, David Wittenberg and Lisa Yaszek

Author : Groff Conklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : OSU:32435059662239

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Big Book of Science Fiction by Groff Conklin Pdf

Author : Peter Fitting
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081956723X

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Subterranean Worlds by Peter Fitting Pdf

Exploring the hollow earth from the 17th century to the present.

Author : Rachel Haywood Ferreira
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0819570834

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The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction by Rachel Haywood Ferreira Pdf

Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior to 1920, Rachel Haywood Ferreira argues that science fiction has always been a global genre. She traces how and why the genre quickly reached Latin America and analyzes how writers in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico adapted science fiction to reflect their own realities. Among the texts discussed are one of the first defenses of Darwinism in Latin America, a tale of a time-traveling history book, and a Latin American Frankenstein. Latin American science fiction writers have long been active participants in the sf literary tradition, expanding the limits of the genre and deepening our perception of the role of science and technology in the Latin American imagination. The book includes a chronological bibliography of science fiction published from 1775 to 1920 in all Latin American countries.

Author : Justine Larbalestier
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081956527X

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The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction by Justine Larbalestier Pdf

How women and feminism helped to shape science fiction in America.

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429903820

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois Pdf

The twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities with delightful results: Collected in this anthology are such compelling stories as: "On K2 with Kanakaredes" by Dan Simmons. A relentlessly paced and absorbing tale set in the near future about three mountain climbers who must scale the face of K2 with some very odd company. "The Human Front" by Ken MacLeod. In this compassionate coming-of-age tale the details of life are just a bit off from things as we know them-and nothing is as it appears to be. "Glacial" by Alastair Reynolds. A fascinating discovery on a distant planet leads to mass death and a wrenching mystery as spellbinding as anything in recent short fiction. The twenty-six stories in this collection imaginatively takes us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Eleanor Arnason Chris Beckett Michael Blumlein Michael Cassutt Brenda W. Clough Paul Di Filippo Andy Duncan Carolyn Ives Gilman Jim Grimsley Simon Ings James Patrick Kelly Leigh Kennedy Nancy Kress Ian R. MacLeod Ken MacLeod Paul J. McAuley Maureen F. McHugh Robert Reed Alastair Reynolds Geoff Ryman William Sanders Dan Simmons Allen M. Steele Charles Stross Michael Swanwick Howard Waldrop Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Author : Robert Latham
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226467023

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Consuming Youth by Robert Latham Pdf

From the novels of Anne Rice to The Lost Boys, from The Terminator to cyberpunk science fiction, vampires and cyborgs have become strikingly visible figures within American popular culture, especially youth culture. In Consuming Youth, Rob Latham explains why, showing how fiction, film, and other media deploy these ambiguous monsters to embody and work through the implications of a capitalist system in which youth both consume and are consumed. Inspired by Marx's use of the cyborg vampire as a metaphor for the objectification of physical labor in the factory, Latham shows how contemporary images of vampires and cyborgs illuminate the contradictory processes of empowerment and exploitation that characterize the youth-consumer system. While the vampire is a voracious consumer driven by a hunger for perpetual youth, the cyborg has incorporated the machineries of consumption into its own flesh. Powerful fusions of technology and desire, these paired images symbolize the forms of labor and leisure that American society has staked out for contemporary youth. A startling look at youth in our time, Consuming Youth will interest anyone concerned with film, television, and popular culture.

Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504050968

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We Who Are About To . . . by Joanna Russ Pdf

One woman resists the demands of her fellow stranded survivors on an inhospitable planet in this “elegant and electric . . . tour-de-force” (Samuel R. Delany). In this stunning and boldly imagined novel, an explosion leaves the passengers of a starship marooned on a barren alien planet. Despite only a slim chance for survival, most of the strangers are determined to colonize their new home. But the civilization they hoped for rapidly descends into a harsh microcosm of a male-dominated society, with the females in the group relegated to the subservient position of baby-makers. One holdout wants to accept her fate realistically and prepare for death. But her desperate fellow survivors have no intention of honoring her individual right to choose. They’re prepared to force her to submit to their plan for reproduction—which will prove to be a grave mistake . . . In Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Joanna Russ’s trailblazing body of work, “her genius flows and convinces, shames and alarms” (The Washington Post).

Author : Arthur B. Evans
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780819574398

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Vintage Visions by Arthur B. Evans Pdf

Vintage Visions is a seminal collection of scholarly essays on early works of science fiction and its antecedents. From Cyrano de Bergerac in 1657 to Olaf Stapledon in 1937, this anthology focuses on an unusually broad range of authors and works in the genre as it emerged across the globe, including the United States, Russia, Europe, and Latin America. The book includes material that will be of interest to both scholars and fans, including an extensive bibliography of criticism on early science fiction—the first of its kind—and a chronological listing of 150 key early works. Before Dr. Strangelove, future-war fiction was hugely popular in nineteenth-century Great Britain. Before Terminator, a French author depicted Thomas Edison as the creator of the perfect female android. These works and others are featured in this critical anthology. Contributors include Paul K. Alkon, Andrea Bell, Josh Bernatchez, I. F. Clarke, William J. Fanning Jr., William B. Fischer, Allison de Fren, Susan Gubar, Rachel Haywood Ferreira, Kamila Kinyon, Stanislaw Lem, Patrick A. McCarthy, Sylvie Romanowski, Nicholas Ruddick, and Gary Westfahl.