New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction by Lars Schmeink

New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction by Lars Schmeink

New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction demonstrates the variety and scope of German science fiction (SF) production in literature, television, and cinema.

“New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction marks a major shift both in the study and inclusion of what it terms the German ‘transcultural fantastic’ … The present collection contributes to this shift through its preference for a transcultural lens over the binary that expects global science fiction to enact the Other. … Overall, the authors of New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction pose questions key to the genre’s and, indeed, to our planet’s future.” (Sonja Fritzsche, German Studies Canada, Vol. 59 (2), 2023)

Lars Schmeink is Research Fellow at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany. For 2022, he has received a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Leeds, UK. He is a researcher in the FutureWork research project of the German Ministry of Education at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is the founder of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung and has served as president of the board from 2010 to 2019. He has published widely on science fiction, the fantastic, and popular culture, including The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture (co-editor, 2020); Cyberpunk and Visual Culture (co-editor, 2018); Biopunk Dystopias: Genetic Engineering, Society, and Science Fiction (2016), Collision of Realities (co-editor, 2012), and Fremde Welten (co-editor, 2012).

Ingo Cornils is Professor of German Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published widely onscience fiction, edited two special issues of the academic journal literatur für leser on German language science fiction co-edited, with Ricarda Vidal, the volume Alternative Worlds: Blue-Sky Thinking since 1900 (2015), and authored of the monograph Beyond Tomorrow: German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Century (2020).

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ISBN 13	9783030959623
ISBN 10	3030959627
Title	New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction
Author	Lars Schmeink
Series	Studies In Global Science Fiction
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Year published	2022-04-23
Number of pages	317
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