Cyberfiction: After the Future - Brossura

Youngquist, P.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1349383481 ISBN 13: 9781349383481

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Riassunto

This book traces the rise of cyberfiction in the work of key authors in the field, including J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, and William Gibson, among others.

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Recensione:

"Whereas science fiction asks What if? questions about technology and the human future, Youngquist asks What if? questions about the genre itself. What if the essential discourse of science fiction is less apparent than commonly supposed? What if, beyond their overt extrapolations, our most valuable SF authors have been concomitantly conducting Gedanken experiments designed to illuminate capitalism s discontents, the semiotics of eroticism, the limits of consensus reality, the mutability of the body, and the intricate web of power relationships that constitute postindustrial society? Youngquist s insightful and philosophically grounded answers will beguile students of Mary Shelley, Alfred Bester, J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Samuel R. Delany, William Gibson, Octavia Butler, and a dozen other supreme practitioners of speculative literature." - James Morrow, author of The Last Witchfinder and Shambling Towards Hiroshima

L'autore:

PAUL YOUNGQUIST, Professor of English at Penn State, USA.

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1349383481
• ISBN 13: 9781349383481
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 253