Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781350230668 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

Sarah Falcus; Kate de Medeiros; Maricel Or?-Piqueras

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Introduction: Intersections between Age Studies and Science and Speculative Fiction Maricel Oró-Piqueras and Sarah Falcus Chapter 1 Remaking Ourselves: Age, Death and Techno-bodies in the Fiction of Transhumanist Immortality Teresa Botelho Chapter 2 Ageing and Youthing: Portrayals of Progression and Regression in Science Fiction Film and TV Peter Goggin and Ulla Kriebernegg Chapter 3 Ageing and Generation in Recent Narratives of Longevity Sarah Falcus and Maricel Oró-Piqueras Chapter 4 Biological Slaves: Discardable Bodies in Dystopia Maria Aline Ferreira Chapter 5 Prejudice Against Our Feared Future Self: Contemporary Perspectives on Ageing in European Dystopian Literature Aleksandra Pogonska-Baranowska Chapter 6 Ageing and Age-Based Extinction in Twentieth- and Early-Twenty-First-Century Speculative and Science Fiction: William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson’s Logan’s Run (1967) and Christopher Buckley’s Boomsday (2007) Stella Achilleos Chapter 7 ‘Whatever comes after human progress’: Transhumanism, Antihumanism, and the Absence of Queer Ecology inLidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan Sean Seeger Chapter 8 A Spectral Future: Dementia and the Nonhuman in Marjorie Prime Michael Hooper Chapter 9 A Cure for Ageing: Digital Cloning as Utopian End-of-life Care in the ‘San Junipero’ Episode of Black Mirror Eszter Ureczky Chapter 10 Ageing, Anachronism and Perception in Dystopian Narrative: The Case of Margaret Atwood’s ‘Torching the Dusties’ Susan Watkins Chapter 11 Playing with Possibilities: Ursula Le Guin and Speculations on the Human Condition: An Anocritical Approach Roberta Maierhofer