دانلود کتاب Difference Engine: Aliens, Robots, and Other Racial Matters in the History of Science Fiction

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Article published in the «Science Fiction Studies» — 2010 — Vol. 37 — No.1 (March) — pp. 16-22.In the late 1970s, Robert Scholes and Eric Rabkin published Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision, a work that heralded the maturation of the American academy with regards to the genre as an object of serious study. Parts of this pioneering work stand up to contemporary scrutiny. They argue, however, that, while science fiction has been awkward about sex (or the presence of women), it has had a laudable tendency toward producing futures where racial others appear but in which race "is not remarkable in any way" (188). Thus, they are able to cover the matter in a page and a half. Their reading of the genre underplays the significant role of race in the construction of particular generic concerns as well as its continued importance in defining the social issues at stake in genre futurism. Their hope is in a science fiction heralding the arrival of a post-racial future in which the wounds inflicted by current conflicts around race are healed, leaving no scars. Interestingly, the liberal racial politics that structure their position lead them to present Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers (1959), with Samuel R. Delany as a friendly witness, as the representative model for this hope.