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Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction attempts to descry the historical and cultural contours of SF in the wake of technoculture studies. Rather than treating the genre as an isolated aesthetic formation, it examines SF''s many lines of cross-pollination with technocultural realities since its inception in the nineteenth century, showing how SF''s unique history and subcultural identity has been constructed in ongoing dialogue with popular discourses of science and technology. The volume consists of four broadly themed sections, each divided into eleven chapters. Section I, Science Fiction as Genre, considers the internal history of SF literature, examining its characteristic aesthetic and ideological modalities, its animating social and commercial institutions, and its relationship to other fantastic genres. Section II, Science Fiction as Medium, presents a more diverse and ramified understanding of what constitutes the field as a mode of artistic and pop-cultural expression, canvass
Table of ContentsContributors ; Introduction ; Part I. Science Fiction as Genre ; 1. "Extrapolation and Speculation" ; Brooks Landon ; 2. "Aesthetics" ; Peter Stockwell ; 3. "Histories" ; Arthur B. Evans ; 4. "Literary Movements" ; Gary K. Wolfe ; 5. "Fandom" ; Farah Mendlesohn ; 6. "The Marketplace" ; Gary Westfahl ; 7. "Pulp Science Fiction" ; Jess Nevins ; 8. "Literary Science Fiction" ; Joan Gordon ; 9. "Slipstream" ; Victoria de Zwaan ; 10. "The Fantastic" ; Brian Attebery ; 11. "Genre vs. Mode" ; Veronica Hollinger ; Part II. Science Fiction as Medium ; 12. "Film" ; Mark Bould ; 13. "Radio and Television" ; J.P. Telotte ; 14. "Animation" ; Paul Wells ; 15. "Art and Illustration" ; Jerome Winter ; 16. "Comics" ; Corey Creekmur ; 17. "Video Games" ; Pawe? Frelik ; 18. "Digital Arts and Hypertext" ; James Tobias ; 19. "Music" ; John Cline ; 20. "Performance Art" ; Steve Dixon ; 21. "Architecture" ; Nic Clear ; 22. "Theme Parks" ; Leonie Cooper ; Part III. Science Fiction as Culture ; 23. "The Culture of Science" ; Sherryl Vint ; 24. "Automation" ; Roger Luckhurst ; 25. "Military Culture" ; Steffen Hantke ; 26. "Atomic Culture and the Space Race" ; David Seed ; 27. "UFOs, Scientology, and Other SF Religions" ; Gregory L. Reece ; 28. "Advertising and Design" ; Jonathan M. Woodham ; 29. "Countercultures" ; Rob Latham ; 30. "Sexuality" ; Patricia Melzer ; 31. "Body Modification" ; Ross Farnell ; 32. "Cyberculture" ; Thomas Foster ; 33. "Retrofuturism and Steampunk" ; Elizabeth Guffey and Kate C. Lemay ; Part IV. Science Fiction as Worldview ; 34. "The Enlightenment" ; Adam Roberts ; 35. "The Gothic" ; William Hughes ; 36. "Darwinism" ; Patrick B. Sharp ; 37. "Colonialism and Postcolonialism" ; John Rieder ; 38. "Pseudoscience" ; Anthony Enns ; 39. "Futurology" ; Andrew M. Butler ; 40. "Posthumanism" ; Colin Milburn ; 41. "Feminism" ; Lisa Yaszek ; 42. "Libertarianism and Anarchism" ; Neil Easterbrook ; 43. "Afrofuturism" ; De Witt Douglas Kilgore ; 44. "Utopianism" ; Phillip E. Wegner
