Science fiction beyond borders

by Edrei, Shawn Gurevitch, Danielle

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Title Statements

Full title :Science fiction beyond borders / edited by Shawn Edrei and Danielle Gurevitch

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Place of Publication:Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 182 pages ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1443899550, 9781443899550
oclc:on1040673306
LC Classification:PN3433.2
Dewey Decimal:809.38762

Character degree zero: space and the posthuman subject / Elana Gomel -- Androgynous aliens and gender migrants: experiments in genderlessness in Ursula K. Le Guin's The left hand of darkness and Greg Egan's Distress / Anat Karolin -- The importance of telling lies: SF ethics and the story of the fall in China Miéville's Embassytown / Naomi Michalowicz -- Fictionalising the failure of science: zombies, ambivalence, and modernity / Moriel Ram -- Human degeneration in early science fiction literature / Razi Zeidan -- Facing your dolly: cloning as an aid or obstacle to discussions of ethics in science ficion / Ulrike Goldenblatt -- Futurist, decadent, and pagan influences in transhumanism: the dangers of godlike creativity / Vyatcheslav Bart -- Why are there no Israeli utopias in Israeli science fiction? / Avital Pilpel -- Angels on Katzenelson Street: the Israeli reader's attitude towards fantastic literature / Danielle Gurevitch -- Genre hybridity in tabletop roleplaying games: when you want to play it and you can / Asaph Wagner -- Smashing expectations for fun and profit: intertextuality and "rip-off" in the novels of John Scalzi / Hila Peleg

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Boundaries in literature Boundaries in literature -- Congresses Conference papers and proceedings Criticism, interpretation, etc Frontières dans la littérature -- Congr… Science fiction Science fiction -- Congresses. -- Histo…