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  • Science Fiction, New Space Opera, and Neoliberal Globalism

    Nostalgia for Infinity

    de Jerome Winter ...
    Series series New Dimensions in Science Fiction
    One of the few points critics and readers can agree upon when discussing the fiction popularly known as New Space Opera – a recent subgenre movement of science fiction – is its canny engagement with contemporary cultural politics in the age of globalisation. This book avers that the complex political allegories of New Space Opera respond to the recent cultural phenomenon known as neoliberalism, ... Leer más

    $29.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's Science Fiction

    de Jerome Winter ...
    This book is a career-long retrospective of the Irish writer Ian McDonald and his complex, compelling representation of our contemporary global condition.Ian McDonald is a celebrated writer within the science-fiction community whose rich and urgent body of works, span over a quarter of a century. The author claims McDonald's work functions as vital, troubling allegories, which both refuse the ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • BioWare's Mass Effect

    de Jerome Winter ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The videogame series Mass Effect is a remarkable rarity not only for being an original science-fictional franchise of recent vintage that has risen to such prominent commercial and critical success in popular culture but also for pushing the canonical boundaries of how science fiction as a genre will be experienced and understood in the future. This book analyzes the significance of the game for ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Citizen Science Fiction

    de Jerome Winter ...
    Citizen Science Fiction draws on an interdisciplinary swath of literature and media to make the case that the science fiction genre can help rethink the pedagogical use of citizen science as a tool to interrogate our collective civic engagement with science and the incorporation of science into a rigorous, exciting writing-based curriculum. The book revolves around recent developments in specific ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

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  • Science Fiction Criticism

    An Anthology of Essential Writings

    de Professor Rob Latham ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Uneven Futures

    Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction

    Edición de Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes, Gerry Canavan ...
    Essays on speculative/science fiction explore the futures that feed our most cherished fantasies and terrifying nightmares, while helping diverse communities devise new survival strategies for a tough millennium.The explosion in speculative/science fiction (SF) across different media from the late twentieth century to the present has compelled those in the field of SF studies to rethink the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Green Planets

    Ecology and Science Fiction

    Edición de Gerry Canavan, Kim Stanley Robinson ...
    Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism on the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrophic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science fiction, ecology, and environmentalism, the essays in Green ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Science Fiction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de David Seed ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature. It has also been argued that science fiction narratives are the most engaged, socially relevant, and responsive to the modern ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Techno-Orientalism

    Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media

    de David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, Kenneth Hough, Jason Crum, Victor Bascara, Warren Liu, Seo-Young Chu0, Abigail De Kosnik1, Jinny Huh2, Steve Choe3, Se Young Kim4, Dylan Yeats5, Julie Ha Tran6, Kathryn Allan7, Aimee Bahng8, Douglas S. Ishii9, Tzarina T. Prater0, Catherine Fung1, Charles Park2 ...
    Series series Asian American Studies Today
    What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Doctor Who and Race

    de Lindy Orthia ...
    Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction television series in the world and is regularly watched by millions of people across the globe. While its scores of fans adore the show with cult-like devotion, the fan-contributors to this book argue that there is an uncharted dimension to Doctor Who. Bringing together diverse perspectives on race and its representation in Doctor Who, this ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Japan After Japan

    Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present

    de Rey Chow, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    The prolonged downturn in the Japanese economy that began during the recessionary 1990s triggered a complex set of reactions both within Japan and abroad, reshaping not only the country’s economy but also its politics, society, and culture. In Japan After Japan, scholars of history, anthropology, literature, and film explore the profound transformations in Japan since the early 1990s, providing ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Can War be Eliminated?

    de Christopher Coker ...
    Series series Global Futures
    Throughout history, war seems to have had an iron grip on humanity. In this short book, internationally renowned philosopher of war, Christopher Coker, challenges the view that war is an idea that we can cash in for an even better one - peace. War, he argues, is central to the human condition; it is part of the evolutionary inheritance which has allowed us to survive and thrive. New technologies ... Leer más

    $16.00 USD