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Lost in space : geographies of science fiction

Science fiction - one of the most popular literary, cinematic and televisual genres - has received increasing academic attention over the years. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches, essays in this volume explore the writings of a broad selection of science fiction writers and films.
Print Book, English, 2001
Continuum, London, 2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780826457301, 9780826457318, 0826457304, 0826457312
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1. Lost in space / James Kneale and Rob Kitchin
2. The way it wasn't: alternative histories, contingent geographies / Barney Warf
3. Geography's conquest of history in The diamond age / Michael Longman and Tim Oakes
4. Space, technology and Neal Stephenson's science fiction / Michelle Kendrick
5. Geographies of power and social relations in Marge Piercy's He, she and it / Barbara J. Morehouse
6. The subjectivity of the near future: geographical imaginings in the work of J.G. Ballard / Jonathan S. Taylor
7. Tuning the self: city space and SF horror movies / Stuart C. Aitken
8. Science fiction and cinema: the hysterical materialism of pataphysical space / Paul Kingsbury
9. An invention without a future, a solution without a problem: motor pirates, time machines and drunkenness on the screen / Marcus A. Doel and David B. Clarke
10. What we can say about nature: familiar geographies, science fiction and popular physics / Sheila Hones
11. Murray Bookchin on Mars! The production of nature in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy / Shaun Huston
12. In the belly of the monster: Frankenstein, food, factishes and fiction / Nick Bingham