Sci-Fi: A Companion

ISBN-13: 9781788743495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str.

Jack Fennell

Opis

What is Sci-Fi? Science fiction is a non-realist genre that revels in discovery and revelation, whether through human ingenuity or world-altering paradigm shifts. With accessible chapters on key texts appealing to both general readers and researchers, this volume offers a useful survey of the genre, from Octavia Butler to Westworld.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Jack Fennell: Introduction: The Fetish of Origin - José Manuel Correoso-Rodenas: Science Fiction and the Gothic (1770-1912) - Juan L. Pérez-de-Luque: H. P. Lovecraft's 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' (1936) - Weird Fiction - Val Nolan: Starships and Space Opera (1928-present) - Tom Dillon: New Worlds and Jerry Cornelius (1964-1976) - The New Wave - Sara Martín: Iain M. Banks's Culture Series (1987-2012) - Aliens - Nathan Emmerich: Isaac Asimov's Robot Series (1939-1985) and Ted Chiang's The Lifecycle of Software Objects (2010) - Robots -Matteo Barbagallo: Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy's Westworld (2016-present) - Virtual Life - Lars Schmeink: Square Enix's Deus Ex: Human Revolution (2011) - Posthumanism - Marta María Gutiérrez Rodríguez: Joreid McFate's The Demon Plague (2004) - Time Travel - Jack Fennell: Alternate Histories - Simon Bacon: Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2014) - Science Fiction Vampires - Isiah Lavender III: Jordan Peele's Get Out (2017) and Ryan Coogler's Black Panther (2018) - Afrofuturism - Amy H. Sturgis: Indigenous Futurisms - Christopher B. Menadue: George Miller's Mad Max (1979-2015) and Ryan Griffen's Cleverman (2016-2017) - Australian Science Fiction - Raffaella Baccolini: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (2017-present) - Women's Dystopian Science Fiction -Alec Charles: The Thirteenth Doctor, Doctor Who (2017-present) - Gender Roles and Sexism - Thomas Connolly: Disability in Science Fiction - Andrew Milner: Science Fiction and Climate Change - Mark Bould: Science Fiction and the Anthropocene - Chris Pak: Animals in Science Fiction - Jeremy Brett: Science Fiction Archives - Dan Byrne-Smith: Science Fiction Comics - Mariano Martín Rodríguez: Science Fiction Metafiction - Ian Farnell: Alistair McDowall's X (2016) - Science Fiction Theatre

O autorze

Jack Fennell is a science fiction researcher, author and translator based in Limerick, Ireland. He is the author of the critical study Irish Science Fiction (2014) and the editor of the Irish sci-fi anthology A Brilliant Void (2018).