Flying Cups Saucers Gender Explorations In Science Fiction Fantasy

Author : Debbie Notkin
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 055700196X
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Cups & Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction & Fantasy written by Debbie Notkin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wonder what happened to the rest of the tea party when the saucers went off into space? Here's your chance to find out! What would it be like to go to a club where you could buy an injection of sexiness? To grow up in a world where you didn't know what gender you would be until puberty -- and the discovery could be painful? To find yourself and your secret pitted against the entire United States government? The James Tiptree, Jr. Award has been recognizing science fiction and fantasy novels and stories that explore and expand gender since 1992. Although the award itself is given to one or two works of fiction a year, each jury also produces an "honor list" of notable works that were considered for the award. This anthology contains almost all of the short fiction that either won or was honored in the first five years of the award.

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 0312264747
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1999-07-30 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past through tomorrow are boldly imagined and reinvented in the twenty-five stories collected in this showcase anthology. Many of the field's finest practitioners are represented here, along with stories from promising newcomers, including: William Barton * Rob Chilson * Tony Daniel * Cory Doctorow * Jim Grimsley * Gwyneth Jones * Chris Lawson * Ian McDonald * Robert Reed * William Browning Spencer * Allen Steele * Michael Swanwick * Howard Waldrop * Cherry Wilder * Liz Williams A useful list of honorable mentions and Dozois's insightful summation of the year in sf round out this anthology, making it indispensable for anyone interested in SF today.

Author : Robin Anne Reid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313054746
Total Pages : 789 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy [2 volumes] written by Robin Anne Reid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works of science fiction and fantasy increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. This book examines women's contributions to science fiction and fantasy across a range of media and genres, such as fiction, nonfiction, film, television, art, comics, graphic novels, and music. The first volume offers survey essays on major topics, such as sexual identities, fandom, women's writing groups, and feminist spirituality; the second provides alphabetically arranged entries on more specific subjects, such as Hindu mythology, Toni Morrison, magical realism, and Margaret Atwood. Entries are written by expert contributors and cite works for further reading, and the set closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students and general readers love science fiction and fantasy. And science fiction and fantasy works increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. Older works demonstrate attitudes toward women in times past, while more recent works grapple with contemporary social issues. This book helps students use science fiction and fantasy to understand the contributions of women writers, the representation of women in the media, and the experiences of women in society.

Author : Brian Attebery
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317971477
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decoding Gender in Science Fiction written by Brian Attebery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Frankenstein to futuristic feminist utopias, Decoding Gender in Science Fiction examines the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored, and revised conventional notions of sexual difference. Attebery traces a fascinating history of men's and women's writing that covertly or overtly investigates conceptions of gender, suggesting new perspectives on the genre.

Author : Gardner R. Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312209630
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction written by Gardner R. Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st edition of the award-winning annual compilation of the year's best science fiction stories.

Author : Edward James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107494672
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction written by Edward James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. After an introduction to the nature of science fiction, historical chapters trace science fiction from Thomas More to more recent years, including a chapter on film and television. The second section introduces four important critical approaches to science fiction drawing their theoretical inspiration from Marxism, postmodernism, feminism and queer theory. The final and largest section of the book looks at various themes and sub-genres of science fiction. A number of well-known science fiction writers contribute to this volume, including Gwyneth Jones, Ken MacLeod, Brian Stableford Andy Duncan, James Gunn, Joan Slonczewski, and Damien Broderick.

Author : James H. Thrall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040021565
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Science Fiction written by James H. Thrall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and Science Fiction: An Introduction guides students into deeper understanding of how religion and science fiction engage often overlapping questions. This textbook introduces key ideas of religious studies through critical consideration of print and visual media that fall within the general category of science fiction. The goal throughout is to help students move beyond simply identifying points of interrelation between religious studies and forms of what is often called, more broadly, speculative fiction, to considering how the studied texts open new ways of thinking about human (and nonhuman) experience taken to be religious. With discussion questions, lists of key terms, extensive additional resources, and suggestions for projects and essay questions, this book is a foundational text for students and instructors of religion and science fiction.

Author : Donald E. Morse
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443806617
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anatomy of Science Fiction written by Donald E. Morse and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This wide-ranging collection of essays re-opens the connection between science fiction and the increasingly science-fictional world. Kevin Alexander Boon reminds us of the degree to which the epistemology of science fiction infects modern political discourse. Károly Pintér explores the narrative structures of utopian estrangement, and Tamás Bényei and Brian Attebery take us deeper into the cultural exchanges between science fiction and the literary and political worlds. In the second half, Donald Morse, Nicholas Ruddick and Éva Federmayer look at the way in which science fiction has tackled major ethical issues, while Amy Novak and Kálmán Matolcsy consider memory and evolution as cultural batteries. The book ends with important discussions of East German and Hungarian science fiction by Usch Kiausch and Donald Morse respectively. I envisage that the book will find a market both among academics and as a recommended text to undergraduates as it offers interesting essays on important readers. The tendency for science fiction to be offered as a literature class to science majors is not usually considered, but this book would be particularly appropriate for such a market." Dr. Farah Mendelsohn, Middlesex University

Author : John Rieder
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819577170
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System written by John Rieder and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh approach to the history and shape of science fiction In Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System, John Rieder asks literary scholars to consider what shape literary history takes when based on a historical, rather than formalist, genre theory. Rieder starts from the premise that science fiction and the other genres usually associated with so-called genre fiction comprise a system of genres entirely distinct from the pre-existing classical and academic genre system that includes the epic, tragedy, comedy, satire, romance, the lyric, and so on. He proposes that the field of literary production and the project of literary studies cannot be adequately conceptualized without taking into account the tensions between these two genre systems that arise from their different modes of production, distribution, and reception. Although the careful reading of individual texts forms an important part of this study, the systemic approach offered by Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System provides a fundamental challenge to literary methodologies that foreground individual innovation.

Author : Justine Larbalestier
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819566764
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughters of Earth written by Justine Larbalestier and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-22 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's contributions to science fiction have been lasting and important. This is a collection of 11 key stories, alongside 11 essays that explore the stories' contexts, meanings, and theoretical implications. Organized chronologically, it aims to create a different canon of feminist science fiction and examines the theory that addresses it.