Science fiction: stories and contexts
A selection of fiction by classic and emerging writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, grouped into major themes: alien encounters, artificial life, time, utopias and dystopias, disasters and apocalypses, and evolutions. The stories are complemented by contextual documents that su...
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| Summary: | A selection of fiction by classic and emerging writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, grouped into major themes: alien encounters, artificial life, time, utopias and dystopias, disasters and apocalypses, and evolutions. The stories are complemented by contextual documents that suggest the scholarly, theoretical, and historical currents that drove the development of the genre |
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| adam_text | Preface v
Chronological Contents
xiii
Alternative Thematic Contents
xv
A Brief Introduction to Science Fiction and Its History
1
A Selective Guide to Science Fiction Research
11
1.
Alien Encounters
17
II. G. Wells, From The War of the Worlds
(
1
898)
1
8
Stanley G.
Weinbaum,
A Martian Odyssey
(1934) 32
Fredric Brown,
A rena
(1944) 52
Ray Bradbury, Mars Is Heaven!
(1948) 73
Sonya
Dormán,
When I Was Miss Dow
(1966) 87
Ursula K.
Le Guin,
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow
(1971) 96
Octavia
E.
Butler, Bloodchild
(1984) 119
Greg Egan, Wang s Carpets
(1995) 135
Michael Swanwick, Slow Life
(2002) 161
Critical Contexts for Alien Encounters
179
Simone de
Beauvoir,
From The Second Sex
(1949) 179
Garl
Gustav
Jung, The Shadow
(1951) 186
Frantz
Fanon,
The Fact of Blackness
(1952) 189
2.
Artificial Life
194
E
.
T. A. Hoffmann, The Sandman
(1816) 195
Mary Shelley, From Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
(1818; 1831) 221
Karel Čapek,
R.
U.R. ( 1921 ) 231
Isaac
Asimov,
Liar!
( 1941 ) 282
Philip K.
Dick, Second Variety
(1953) 296
Kate
Wilhelm,,
Bahy, You Were Great!
(J
967) 331
James Tiptree Jr., The Girl Who Was Plugged In
(1973) 342
William Gibson, Burning Chrome
(1985) 371
Maureen F. McHugh, Nekropolis
(1994) 386
Ken Liu, The Algorithms for Love
(2004) 415
Critical Contexts for Artificial Life
427
Sigmund
Freud, The Uncanny
(1919;
trans.
1924) 427
Jean Baudrillard, The Precession of Simulacra
(1981) 442
Donna J. Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto
(1985; 1991) 455
3.
Time
476
Jules Verne, Master Zacharius
(1854;
trans.
1874) 478
Miles J.
Breuer,
The Gostak and the Doshes
( 1930) 503
C. L.
Moore, Vintage Season
(1946) 517
Robert A.
Heinlein,
All You Zombies
— ( 1959) 551
Robert
Silverberg,
When We Went to See the End of the World
(1972) 561
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Lucky Strike
(1984) 568
Connie Willis, At the
Rialto
(1989) 596
Ted Chiang, Story of Your Life
(1998) 614
Benjamin
Rosenbaum,
Start the Clock
(2004) 651
Critical Contexts for Time
664
Jean-Paul Sartre, From Being and Nothingness
(1943) 664
Edward Hallett Carr, The Historian and His Facts
(1961) 673
Michio Kaku, To Build a Time Machine
( 1994) 685
4.
Utopias and Dystopias
702
Yevgeny Zamyatin, From We
(1921;
trans.
1972) 704
A. E. van
Vogt,
The Weapon Shop
(1942) 716
Damon Knight, The Country of the Kind
(1955) 748
Harlan
Ellison, Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman
(1965) 758
Joanna
Russ,
When It Changed
(1972) 768
John Varley, The Persistence of Vision
(1978) 774
Mike Resnick, Kirinyaga
(1988) 811
Geoff Ryman, Dead Space for the Unexpected
(1994) 826
Nalo Hopkinson, Something to Hitch Meat To
(2001) 838
Critical Contexts for Utopias and Dystopias
850
Hannah
Arendt,
Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government
(1951) 850
William H. Whyte Jr., From The Organization Man
(1956) 864
Fredric Jameson, Progress versus Utopia; or, Can We Imagine the
Future?
(1982) 876
5.
Disasters and Apocalypses
892
Camille Flammarion,
From Omega: The Last Days of the World
(1893) 894
Alfred
Bester, Adam
and No Eve
(1941) 905
Arthur
С
Clarke, The Nine Billion Names of God
(1953) 915
J. G. Ballard, The Terminal Beach
(1964) 921
Stanislaw
Lem,
How the World Was Saved
(1967) 937
C. J.
Cherryh, Cassandra
(1978) 941
Sakyo Komatsu, Take Your Choice
(1967;
trans.
1987) 947
Ian McDonald, Recording Angel
(1996) 958
William Sanders, When This World Is All on Fire
(2001 ) 969
Critical Contexts for Disasters and Apocalypses
984
Mircea Eliade, From The Myth of the Eternal Return
(1949;
trans.
1954) 984
Susan
Sontag,
The Imagination of Disaster
(1965) 1002
Paul Boyer, The Whole World Gasped
(1994) 1015
6.
Evolutions
1028
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappaccini s Daughter
(1844) 1029
John W. Campbell Jr., Twilight
(1934) 1052
Olaf
Stapledon,
From Star Maker
(1937) 1068
Lewis Padgett, Mimsy Were the Borogoves
(1943) 1084
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
(1959) 1110
Roger
Żelazny,
For a Breath I Tarry
( 1966) 1132
Samuel R. Delany
Driftglass
( 1967) 1161
Greg Bear, Blood Music
(1983) 1175
Terry
Bisson, Bears Discover Fire
( 1990) 1194
Critical Contexts for Evolutions
1203
Stephen Jay Gould, Nonmoral Nature
(1982) 1203
Marvin
Minsky,
Will Robots Inherit the Earth?
(1994) 1211
Steven Johnson, The Myth of the Ant Queen
(2002) 1222
Index of Authors and Titles
1241
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