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  1. Animals and science fiction
    Contributor: Castle, Nora (Publisher); Champion, Giulia (Publisher)
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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  2. Vegetarianism and science fiction
    a history of utopian animal ethics
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland

    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
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  3. Shockwaves of possibility
    essays on science fiction, globalization, and utopia
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Bern, Switzerland

    Shockwaves of Possibility explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. The author contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in SF, but rather is fundamental to its narrative dynamics.... more

     

    Shockwaves of Possibility explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. The author contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in SF, but rather is fundamental to its narrative dynamics. Drawing upon a rich array of theory and criticism in SF and utopian studies, the book opens with a global periodizing history that shows the inseparability of SF from developments in other cultural fields. It goes on to examine literature, film, television, comics, and animation in order to demonstrate SF''s unique effectiveness for grappling with th

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783035306422; 3035306427
    Series: Ralahine Utopian Studies ; Volume 15
    Subjects: Science fiction / History and criticism; Utopias in literature; Literature and globalization; Modernism (Literature) / History and criticism; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Literature and globalization / (OCoLC)fst01742170; Modernism (Literature) / (OCoLC)fst01024455; Science fiction / (OCoLC)fst01108566; Utopias in literature / (OCoLC)fst01163372
    Scope: 1 online resource (333 pages)
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    Description based on print version record

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One: The Modernisms of Science Fiction: Toward a Periodizing History; Part One: Evental Genres; Chapter Two: If Everything Means Something Else: Technology, Allegory, and Events in Roadside Picnic and Stalker; Chapter Three: After the End of the World: Pseudo-Apocalypse and Universal History in Paradise and The Windup Girl; Chapter Four: Recognizing the Patterns; Part Two: Possible Worlds; Chapter Five: The Beat Cops of History: Or, The Paranoid Style in American Intellectual Politics; Chapter Six: Popular Dystopias in an Era of Global War

    Chapter Seven: Alan Moore, "Secondary Literacy," and the Modernism of the Graphic NovelChapter Eight: Ken MacLeod's Permanent Revolution: Utopian Possible Worlds, History, and the Augenblick in the "Fall Revolution"; Part Three: Alternate Histories; Chapter Nine: Alternate Histories, Periodization, and the Geopolitical Aesthetics of Ken MacLeod and Iain M. Banks; Chapter Ten: Learning to Live in History: Alternate Historicities and the 1990s in The Years of Rice and Salt

    Chapter Eleven: "An Unfinished Project that was Also a Missed Opportunity": Utopia and Alternate History in Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor TotoroBibliography; Index

  4. Animals and science fiction
    Contributor: Castle, Nora (Publisher); Champion, Giulia (Publisher)
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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  5. Wörterbuch der Science-Fiction
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Frankfurt am M.

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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Siebold, Oliver (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783653003215; 3653003210
    Subjects: Science fiction / Dictionaries / German; Science-Fiction / Neologismus / Wörterbuch; LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy; Science fiction / (OCoLC)fst01108566; Science fiction / Wörterbuch; Science-Fiction; Neologismus
    Scope: 1 online resource (323 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272)

    Inhaltsverzeichnis; Science-Fiction als Text- und Wortwelt 7; Zur Bedeutung von Wörtern in Science-Fiction 8; Wie neue Wörter in Science-Fiction-Texten gebildet werden 12; Basis und Aufbau des Lexikons 15; Abkürzungsverzeichnis 19; Lexikon 21; Zeit und Zeitreisen 21; Raum und Kosmologie 33; Raumschiffe/Transportmittel 45; Waffensysteme 68; Roboter/Cyborgs/Androiden 83; Technologien 102; Virtuelle Welten/Künstliche Intelligenz 132; Kulturen/Gesellschaftsformen/Lebenswelten 142; Lebensformen 177; Kommunikation und Sprache 211; Kognition/Emotion 243; Literatur- und Quellenverzeichnis 253

    Primärliteratur 253Sekundärliteratur und -quellen 262; Wortregister 273