Reimagining Science Fiction by Gary Westfahl
In the first decades of the twenty-first century, science fiction literature has been transformed in many ways, as the genre has reacted to the dominating influence of films, television, and video games, the growing popularity of fantasy, the rise of young adult science fiction and graphic novels, the impact of the internet and social media, and the increasing diversity of the authors, characters, and often non-Western settings.
The essays making up this volume address these and other changes in two ways. Some consider new critical approaches to science fiction in response to changing circumstances, including analyses of how evolutionary psychology explains today's science fiction, the emerging subgenre of "cli-fi" exploring the effects of climate change, the use of science fiction in different areas of the college curriculum, and a statistical method for identifying works of science fiction. Others examine significant new authors such as Nalo Hopkinson, Charles Stross, Paolo Bacigalupi, Suzanne Collins, Mira Grant, John Sandford, and David Mura. Contributors include science fiction author Howard V. Hendrix and experts in the fields of Chinese studies, gender studies, literature, philosophy, and religion.
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Science Fiction Literature Through History
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Societies in Space
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Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy
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Unearthly Visions
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Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction
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A Sense-of-Wonderful Century
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An Alien Abroad
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Jules Verne Lives!
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Space and Beyond
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Cosmic Engineers
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The Other Side of the Sky
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The Stuff of Science Fiction
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William Gibson
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The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s
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No Cure for the Future
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Science Fiction and the Dismal Science
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The The Spacesuit Film
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Worlds Enough and Time
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Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture
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Immortal Engines
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Science Fiction and the Two Cultures
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Global Science Fiction
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Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future
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Islands in the Sky
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Science Fiction Quotations
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| ISBN 13 | 9781476690148 |
| ISBN 10 | 1476690146 |
| Title | Reimagining Science Fiction |
| Author | Gary Westfahl |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | McFarland |
| Year published | 2025-09-21 |
| Number of pages | 260 |
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