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Science fiction and speculative fiction : challenging genres /
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 schol...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rotterdam :
Sense Publishers,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Critical literacy teaching series, challenging authors and genre ;
v. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A case for SF and speculative fiction / P.L. Thomas
- SF and speculative novels / Michael Svec and Mike Winiski
- SF novels and sociological experimentation / Aaron Passell
- "Peel[ing] apart layers of meaning" in SF short fiction / Jennifer Lyn Dorsey
- Reading alien suns / John Hoben
- Singularity, cyborgs, drones, replicants and avatars / Leila E. Villaverde and Roymieco A. Carter
- Throbling notions of reality in Caprica / Erin Brownlee Dell
- "I try to remember who I am and who I am not" / Sean P. Connors
- "it's bird ... it's plane ... it's ... comic book in the classroom?" / Sean P. Connors
- The enduring power of SF, speculative and dystopian fiction / P.L. Thomas
- Author biographies.