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Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction

Challenging Genres

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. P. L. Thomas

    1. Furman University, Greenville, USA

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  • Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction:
  • Challenging Genres explores science fiction (SF) as an enduring argument about the definition of SF as well as how SF challenges perceptions of what it means to be human.

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • P. L. Thomas
    Pages 1-13

  3. A Case for SF and Speculative Fiction

    • P. L. Thomas
    Pages 15-33

  4. SF and Speculative Novels

    • Michael Svec, Mike Winiski
    Pages 35-57

  5. SF Novels and Sociological Experimentation

    • Aaron Passell
    Pages 59-72

  6. “Peel[ING] Apart Layers of Meaning” in SF Short Fiction

    • Jennifer Lyn Dorsey
    Pages 73-93

  7. Reading Alien Suns

    • John Hoben
    Pages 95-117

  8. Singularity, Cyborgs, Drones, Replicants and Avatars

    • Leila E. Villaverde, Roymieco A. Carter
    Pages 119-131

  9. Troubling Notions of Reality in Caprica

    • Erin Brownlee Dell
    Pages 133-144

  10. “I Try to RememberWho I Am andWho I Am Not”

    • Sean P. Connors
    Pages 145-164

  11. “It’s a Bird … it’s a Plane … it’s … a Comic Book in the Classroom?”

    • Sean P. Connors
    Pages 165-184

  12. The Enduring Power of SF, Speculative and Dystopian Fiction

    • P. L. Thomas
    Pages 185-215

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 217-218
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Why did Kurt Vonnegut shun being labeled a writer of science fiction (SF)? How did Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin find themselves in a public argument about the nature of SF? This volume explores the broad category of SF as a genre, as one that challenges readers, viewers, teachers, and scholars, and then as one that is often itself challenged (as the authors in the collection do). SF, this volume acknowledges, is an enduring argument. The collected chapters include work from teachers, scholars, artists, and a wide range of SF fans, offering a powerful and unique blend of voices to scholarship about SF as well as examinations of the place for SF in the classroom. Among the chapters, discussions focus on SF within debates for and against SF, the history of SF, the tensions related to SF and other genres, the relationship between SF and science, SF novels, SF short fiction, SF film and visual forms (including TV), SF young adult fiction, SF comic books and graphic novels, and the place of SF in contemporary public discourse. The unifying thread running through the volume, as with the series, is the role of critical literacy and pedagogy, and how SF informs both as essential elements of liberatory and democratic education.

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  • Furman University, Greenville, USA

    P. L. Thomas

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