Immortal engines: life extension and immortality in science fiction and fantasy
These nineteen original essays seek to recontextualize the subject of immortality, examining its influence as an ancient human aspiration while at the same time considering new scientific advances and their impact on life and literature. Grouped in three broad categories, the essays provide key info...
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1996
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| Zusammenfassung: | These nineteen original essays seek to recontextualize the subject of immortality, examining its influence as an ancient human aspiration while at the same time considering new scientific advances and their impact on life and literature. Grouped in three broad categories, the essays provide key information about and concepts of immortality, examine science fiction stories and scientific research to consider the prospects and possible effects of achieving immortality, and discuss immortality and life extension as literary themes. The topics the essays focus on, as well as the perspectives of the contributors, range widely: genetics, cryonics, Marxism, Darwinism, cyberspace, feminist writing, religion, Italian science fiction, film, children's literature, video games, and comic books. |
| Beschreibung: | XVII, 243 S. |
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| adam_text | IMMORTAL ENGINES
Life Extension and Immortality
in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Edited by George Slusser, Gary Westfahl,
and Eric S Rabkin
The University of Georgia Press Athens and London
Contents
Prefatory Remarks vii
Introduction: Immortality: The Je/ADefeating Fantasy
Eric S Rabkin ix
PARTI APPROACHES TO IMMORTALITY
Philosophical Models of Immortality in Science Fiction
John Martin Fischer and Ruth Curl 3
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Immortality and The Immortal
James Gunn 13
Longevity as Class Struggle
Fredric Jameson 24
PART II SCIENCE AND IMMORTALITY
The Immortality Myth and Technology
Steven B Harris 45
A Roll of the Ice: Cryonics as a Gamble
Sterling Blake 68
Living Forever or Dying in the Attempt: Mortality and Immortality
in Science and Science Fiction -
Joseph D Miller 77
The Biopoetics of Immortality: A Darwinist Perspective on Science Fiction
Brett Cooke 90
IBMortality: Putting the Ghost in the Machine
Stephen Potts 102
How Cyberspace Signifies: Taking Immortality Literally
N KatherineHayles I I I
PART III LITERATURE AND IMMORTALITY
Alienation as the Price of Immortality: The Tithonus Syndrome in
Science Fiction and Fantasy
S L Rosen 125
No Woman Born: Immortality and Gender in Feminist Science Fiction
Robin Roberts 135
The Science Fiction of the House of Saul: From Frankenstein s
Monster to Lazarus Long
Barry Crawford 145
Cosmifantasies: Humanistic Visions of Immortality in Italian Science Fiction
Terri Frongia 158
We Are All Kin: Relatedness, Mortality, and the Paradox
of Human Immortality
Judith Lee 170
Dual Immortality, No Kids: The Dink Link between Birthlessness
and Deathlessness in Science Fiction
Howard V Heridrix 183
Clifford D Simak s Way Station VKt Hero as Archetypal Science Fiction Writer,
the Science Fiction Writer as Seeker for Immortality
Bud Foote 193
Living Dolls: Images of Immortality in Children s Literature
Lynne Lundquist 201
Zen and the Art of Mario Maintenance: Cycles of Death and Rebirth in Video
Games and Children s Subliterature
GaryWestfahl 211
You Bet Your Life: Death and the Storyteller
Frank McConnell 221
Contributors 231
Index 233
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