The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
Author: Arthur B. Evans
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 787
Release: 2010-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0819569550

The best single-volume anthology of science fiction available—includes online teacher's guide The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years' worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty-two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher's guide at http://sfanthology.site.wesleyan.edu/ accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world's most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
Author: Arthur B. Evans
Publisher: Wesleyan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Science fiction, American
ISBN: 9780819569547

The best single-volume anthology of science fiction available--includes online teacher's guide

Cosmos Latinos

Cosmos Latinos
Author: Andrea L. Bell
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2003-07-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780819566348

The first-ever collection of Latin American science fiction in English.

Future Perfect

Future Perfect
Author: Howard Bruce Franklin
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1995
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780813521527

Critics, science fiction writers, scientists, and scholars throughout the world hailed the original publication of Future Perfect in 1966 as a book that would transform our evaluation of science fiction and our understanding of American culture. The praise has proved well founded, for Future Perfect has been more responsible than any other single work for the recognition of the value and significance of science fiction.

Parabolas of Science Fiction

Parabolas of Science Fiction
Author: Brian Atterby
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2013-10-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 081957368X

Essays about the inherently collaborative nature of science fiction As a geometric term, parabola suggests a narrative trajectory or story arc. In science fiction, parabolas take us from the known to the unknown. More concrete than themes, more complex than motifs, parabolas are combinations of meaningful setting, character, and action that lend themselves to endless redefinition and jazzlike improvisation. The fourteen original essays in this collection explore how the field of science fiction has developed as a complex of repetitions, influences, arguments, and broad conversations. This particular feature of the genre has been the source of much critical commentary, most notably through growing interest in the "sf megatext," a continually expanding archive of shared images, situations, plots, characters, settings, and themes found in science fiction across media. Contributors include Jane Donawerth, Terry Dowling, L. Timmel Duchamp, Rachel Haywood Ferreira, Pawel Frelik, David M. Higgins, Amy J. Ransom, John Rieder, Nicholas Ruddick, Graham Sleight, Gary K. Wolfe, and Lisa Yaszek.

Subterranean Worlds

Subterranean Worlds
Author: Peter Fitting
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2004-12-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780819567239

Exploring the hollow earth from the 17th century to the present.

The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction

The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
Author: Rachel Haywood Ferreira
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2011-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0819570834

A fantastic voyage through the early science fiction of Latin America Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior to 1920, Rachel Haywood Ferreira argues that science fiction has always been a global genre. She traces how and why the genre quickly reached Latin America and analyzes how writers in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico adapted science fiction to reflect their own realities. Among the texts discussed are one of the first defenses of Darwinism in Latin America, a tale of a time-traveling history book, and a Latin American Frankenstein. Latin American science fiction writers have long been active participants in the sf literary tradition, expanding the limits of the genre and deepening our perception of the role of science and technology in the Latin American imagination. The book includes a chronological bibliography of science fiction published from 1775 to 1920 in all Latin American countries.

Science Fiction Criticism

Science Fiction Criticism
Author: Rob Latham
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2017-02-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474248632

Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as: ·Definitions and boundaries of the genre ·The many forms of science fiction, from time travel to 'inner space' ·Ideology and identity: from utopian fantasy to feminist, queer and environmental readings ·The non-human: androids, aliens, cyborgs and animals ·Race and the legacy of colonialism The volume also features annotated guides to further reading on these topics. Includes writings by: Marc Angenot, J.G. Ballard, Damien Broderick, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, Grace Dillon, Kodwo Eshun, Carl Freedman, Allison de Fren, Hugo Gernsback, Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, Robert A. Heinlein, Nalo Hopkinson, Veronica Hollinger, Fredric Jameson, Gwyneth Jones, Rob Latham, Roger Luckhurst, Judith Merril, John B. Michel, Wendy Pearson, John Rieder, Lysa Rivera, Joanna Russ, Mary Shelley, Stephen Hong Sohn, Susan Sontag, Bruce Sterling, Darko Suvin, Vernor Vinge, Sherryl Vint, H.G. Wells, David Wittenberg and Lisa Yaszek