Science Fiction Criticism : An Anthology of Essential Writings.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Recommended further reading -- Part 1 - Definitions and boundaries -- Chapter 1 Editorial: A new sort of magazine -- Chapter 2 Preface to The Scientific Romances -- Chapter 3 On the writing of speculative fiction -- Chapter 4 What do you mean: Science? Fiction? -- Chapter 5 Preface to Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology -- Chapter 6 Cybernetic deconstructions: Cyberpunk and postmodernism -- Chapter 7 The many deaths of science ­fiction: A polemic -- Chapter 8 On defining sf, or not: Genre theory, sf, and history -- Genre as a historical process -- Categorization and communities of practice -- Recommended further reading -- Part 2 - Structure and form -- Chapter 9 Which way to inner space? -- Chapter 10 About 5,750 words -- Chapter 11 On the poetics of the science ­fiction genre1 -- Science fiction as fiction (Estrangement) -- Science fiction as cognition (critique and science) -- Science fiction as a literary genre (functions and models) -- For a poetics of science fiction (summation and anticipation) -- Chapter 12 The absent paradigm: An introduction to the semiotics of science fiction1 -- 1 Sign/referent/paradigm -- 2 Neologisms and fictive words -- 3 Exolinguistics -- 4 From the actual syntagm to the missing paradigm -- 5  The missing paradigm, the empirical paradigm, and the referent -- Chapter 13 Reading sf as a mega-text -- Chapter 14 Time travel and the mechanics of narrative -- First reading: Fabula and Sjuzhet in Up the Line -- Second reading: Psychohistoriography in Behold the Man -- Third reading: The ontology of the event in "All the Myriad Ways" -- Contexts, methods, directions -- Genre history -- Recommended further reading -- Part 3 - Ideology and world view -- Chapter 15 Mutation or death! -- Chapter 16 The imagination of disaster.

Chapter 17 The image of women in ­science ­fiction -- Intergalactic suburbia -- Down among the he-men -- Equal is as equal does -- Matriarchy -- Women's fiction: Potpourri -- An odd equality -- Chapter 18 Progress versus Utopia -- or, can we imagine the future? -- Notes -- Chapter 19 Science fiction and critical theory -- 1 Definitions -- 2 Articulations -- 3 Excursuses -- 4 Conclusions -- Chapter 20 Alien cryptographies: The view from queer -- 1 Introduction: Fear of a queer galaxy -- 2 (E)strange(d) fictions: Who goes there? -- 3 Alien nation: Visualizing the (in)visible -- 4 Becoming alien, becoming homosexual: From ­cyptography to cartography -- 5 Conclusion: An alien cartography -- Chapter 21 The women history doesn't see: ­Recovering midcentury women's sf as a literature of social critique -- Recovering the domestic decades in feminist history and feminist science fiction studies -- Midcentury peace activism and SF's nuclear holocaust narrative -- The civil rights movement and SF's "encounter with the alien other" -- Conclusion: Feminist history and feminist SF studies reconsidered -- Recommended further reading -- Part 4 - The nonhuman -- Chapter 22 Author's introduction to ­Frankenstein -- Chapter 23 The android and the human -- Chapter 24 A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century -- An ironic dream of a common language for women in the integrated circuit -- Fractured identities -- The informatics of domination -- Women in the integrated circuit -- Cyborgs: a myth of political identity -- Chapter 25 Virtual bodies and flickering ­signifiers1 -- Signifying the processes of production -- Information narratives and bodies of information -- Functionalities of narrative -- Chapter 26 The coming technological ­singularity: How to survive in a post-human era -- What is the singularity?.

Can the singularity be avoided? -- Other paths to the singularity: Intelligence Amplification -- Strong superhumanity and the best we can ask for -- Chapter 27 Aliens in the fourth dimension -- When two worlds collide -- Interview with the alien -- Speech and silence -- Convergent evolution -- Chapter 28 Technofetishism and the ­uncanny desires of A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots) -- Alt.sex.fetish.robots -- But who is she really? -- The uncanny gynoid -- Mad love -- Eye robot -- Chapter 29 Animal alterity: Science fiction and human-animal studies -- Recommended further reading -- Part 5 - Race and the legacy of colonialism -- Chapter 30 Science fiction and empire -- SF and imperialism -- SF and empire -- Chapter 31 Further considerations on Afrofuturism -- The war of countermemory -- The founding trauma -- Futurism fatigue -- Control through prediction -- SF capital -- The futures industry -- Market dystopia -- The museological turn -- Proleptic intervention -- Black Atlantic sonic process -- Afrophilia in excelsis -- The cosmogenetic moment -- Identification code unidentified -- The implications of revisionism -- The uses of alienation -- The extraterrestrial turn -- Temporal switchback -- Black-Atlantean mythos -- Chapter 32 Indigenous scientific literacies in Nalo Hopkinson's ceremonial worlds -- Indigenous scientific literacies today -- Hinte songs, Maroon "break-aways," and oral ­traditions: The transmissions of indigenous scientific literacy -- "Lizards in trees feed me and teach me how to be invisible" -- "Take one, give back two" -- "Letting the sky into the bush" -- Ceremonial worlds -- Chapter 33 Biotic invasions: Ecological imperialism in new wave science fiction -- Chapter 34 Alien/Asian: Imagining the racialized future -- Acknowledgment -- Chapter 35 Report from planet midnight.

A reluctant ambassador from the planet of midnight -- Afterword -- Chapter 36 Future histories and cyborg labor: Reading borderlands science ­fiction after NAFTA -- Recommended further reading -- List of contributors -- Index.

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