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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 86, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedScience fiction works differentially from other written categories, particularly those categories traditionally called literary.... It has its own particular ways of making sense out of language. To ignore ... these...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhen Joss Whedon's science fiction television series, Firefly, premiered in September, 2002, there was no denying it was a Western. In succeeding frames of the opening credits a pistol cocked with a threatening click;...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 84, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe commonly accepted academic definition of science fiction was formulated by Darko Suvin in the 1970s, but now there is a much-needed revision of his ideas. But does it go for enough? This is probably one of the...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 139, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIf at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it. --Albert Einstein I long dismissed science fiction as fairytale foolishness banged out by hacks for barely literate adolescents. Such...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 84, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBoth classical and current fiction include mathematics as a literary device. As commonly used in science fiction, topology includes the study of spatial dimension, including the arcane Fourth Dimension, famously...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 51, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn a winter's night in 1957 (or 1959) (1) a guionista, or writer of comics, is working late in the atelier of his Buenos Aires home when a man dressed in futuristic clothing materializes in the chair across from him...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 84, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEach summer, James Gunn teaches a SF writers' workshop and intensive SF teaching institute in Lawrence, Kansas, where he has lived most of his life as author, scholar, and English professor. His Damon Knight Grand...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 91, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhen we were together in Cuba in early 2015, I took a photo of Yoss tenderly holding a kitten we encountered in Old Havana. When I later asked him about life during Cuba's Special Period, the time in the early 1990s...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 61, Issue 07)Byline: Paul Voosen Washington -- It's a conservative, incremental time in science (http://chronicle.com/article/Strapped-Scientists-Abandon/144921/) these days. Grants are elusive. Many researchers say that, to win...
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From:Yearbook of English Studies (Vol. 37, Issue 2)ABSTRACTS In Destroyer (2005) and Pretender (2006) C. J. Cherryh continues her exploration of loyalty, family ties, feudal devotion, and personal friendship. Further recurrent themes include the community cut off...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIF A.E. VAN VOGT had written a story of his own life, he would perhaps have started with this line. In a sense, it could very well have served as his epitaph. Van Vogt spent much of his life as a professional science...
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From:Metro Magazine (Issue 154) Peer-ReviewedTWO decades ago, science fiction was perhaps the most ghettoized of television genres. Among fans, the two most popular series were Doctor Who (1963-89)--ostensibly for children--and Star Trek (1966-69)--which only ran...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 54, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSome time ago, I queried listservs regarding interest in a data file showing subject coverage of science fiction and fantasy, as reflected in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database. The responses indicated...
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From:Yearbook of English Studies (Vol. 37, Issue 2)ABSTRACTS This essay argues that H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau is best understood in the context of feminist critiques of science, animal studies, and antivivisectionism. This context allows us to see...
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From:Yearbook of English Studies (Vol. 37, Issue 2)ABSTRACTS Media are the means to the evolution of posthumanity through their ever-intensifying feedback loop with our cognitive apparatus. They are also the expression of the universal human urge to exchange...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 51, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe importance of Jules Verne's voyages extraordinaires for any construction of the history of science fiction seems beyond dispute. As James Gunn put it in a recent roundtable discussion of Verne's relevance to the...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAnthony Boucher is remembered in the science-fiction community primarily for his editing, with and later without J. Francis McComas, of the first nine years of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Earlier, he...
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From:Yearbook of English Studies (Vol. 37, Issue 2)ABSTRACTS Greg Bear's fictions insistently stage moments of catastrophic species change, from the early novella Blood Music to the recent sequence of novels about posthuman species emergence, Darwin's Radio and...
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From:RQ (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe history of the Science Fiction Foundation Library, now located at the Univ. of Liverpool, England, is analyzed. Its functions include supporting a Master's degree program in science fiction, outside researchers,...
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From:Nature (Vol. 537, Issue 7619) Peer-ReviewedScience fiction fights the past as much as it faces the future. Author Affiliations: Back in 1969, you could buy a stake in the future, even if it was only a plastic model kit of the Apollo Lunar Module. But the...