دانلود کتاب Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings

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Title Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\n Recommended further reading\nPart 1 - Definitions and boundaries\n Chapter 1 Editorial: A new sort of magazine\n Chapter 2 Preface to The Scientific Romances\n Chapter 3 On the writing of speculative fiction\n Chapter 4 What do you mean: Science? Fiction?\n Chapter 5 Preface to Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology\n Chapter 6 Cybernetic deconstructions: Cyberpunk and postmodernism\n Chapter 7 The many deaths of science ­fiction: A polemic\n Chapter 8 On defining sf, or not: Genre theory, sf, and history\n Genre as a historical process\n Categorization and communities of practice\n Recommended further reading\nPart 2 - Structure and form\n Chapter 9 Which way to inner space?\n Chapter 10 About 5,750 words\n Chapter 11 On the poetics of the science ­fiction genre1\n Science fiction as fiction (Estrangement)\n Science fiction as cognition (critique and science)\n Science fiction as a literary genre (functions and models)\n For a poetics of science fiction (summation and anticipation)\n Chapter 12 The absent paradigm: An introduction to the semiotics of science fiction1\n 1 Sign/referent/paradigm\n 2 Neologisms and fictive words\n 3 Exolinguistics\n 4 From the actual syntagm to the missing paradigm\n 5 The missing paradigm, the empirical paradigm, and the referent\n Chapter 13 Reading sf as a mega-text\n Chapter 14 Time travel and the mechanics of narrative\n First reading: Fabula and Sjuzhet in Up the Line\n Second reading: Psychohistoriography in Behold the Man\n Third reading: The ontology of the event in “All the Myriad Ways”\n Contexts, methods, directions\n Genre history\n Recommended further reading\nPart 3 - Ideology and world view\n Chapter 15 Mutation or death!\n Chapter 16 The imagination of disaster\n Chapter 17 The image of women in ­science ­fiction\n Intergalactic suburbia\n Down among the he-men\n Equal is as equal does\n Matriarchy\n Women’s fiction: Potpourri\n An odd equality\n Chapter 18 Progress versus Utopia; or, can we imagine the future?\n Notes\n Chapter 19 Science fiction and critical theory\n 1 Definitions\n 2 Articulations\n 3 Excursuses\n 4 Conclusions\n Chapter 20 Alien cryptographies: The view from queer\n 1 Introduction: Fear of a queer galaxy\n 2 (E)strange(d) fictions: Who goes there?\n 3 Alien nation: Visualizing the (in)visible\n 4 Becoming alien, becoming homosexual: From ­cyptography to cartography\n 5 Conclusion: An alien cartography\n Chapter 21 The women history doesn’t see: ­Recovering midcentury women’s sf as a literature of social critique\n Recovering the domestic decades in feminist history and feminist science fiction studies\n Midcentury peace activism and SF’s nuclear holocaust narrative\n The civil rights movement and SF’s “encounter with the alien other”\n Conclusion: Feminist history and feminist SF studies reconsidered\n Recommended further reading\nPart 4 - The nonhuman\n Chapter 22 Author’s introduction to ­Frankenstein\n Chapter 23 The android and the human\n Chapter 24 A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century\n An ironic dream of a common language for women in the integrated circuit\n Fractured identities\n The informatics of domination\n Women in the integrated circuit\n Cyborgs: a myth of political identity\n Chapter 25 Virtual bodies and flickering ­signifiers1\n Signifying the processes of production\n Information narratives and bodies of information\n Functionalities of narrative\n Chapter 26 The coming technological ­singularity: How to survive in a post-human era\n What is the singularity?\n Can the singularity be avoided?\n Other paths to the singularity: Intelligence Amplification\n Strong superhumanity and the best we can ask for\n Chapter 27 Aliens in the fourth dimension\n When two worlds collide\n Interview with the alien\n Speech and silence\n Convergent evolution\n Chapter 28 Technofetishism and the ­uncanny desires of A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots)\n Alt.sex.fetish.robots\n But who is she really?\n The uncanny gynoid\n Mad love\n Eye robot\n Chapter 29 Animal alterity: Science fiction and human-animal studies\n Recommended further reading\nPart 5 - Race and the legacy of colonialism\n Chapter 30 Science fiction and empire\n SF and imperialism\n SF and empire\n Chapter 31 Further considerations on Afrofuturism\n The war of countermemory\n The founding trauma\n Futurism fatigue\n Control through prediction\n SF capital\n The futures industry\n Market dystopia\n The museological turn\n Proleptic intervention\n Black Atlantic sonic process\n Afrophilia in excelsis\n The cosmogenetic moment\n Identification code unidentified\n The implications of revisionism\n The uses of alienation\n The extraterrestrial turn\n Temporal switchback\n Black-Atlantean mythos\n Chapter 32 Indigenous scientific literacies in Nalo Hopkinson’s ceremonial worlds\n Indigenous scientific literacies today\n Hinte songs, Maroon “break-aways,” and oral ­traditions: The transmissions of indigenous scientific literacy\n “Lizards in trees feed me and teach me how to be invisible”\n “Take one, give back two”\n “Letting the sky into the bush”\n Ceremonial worlds\n Chapter 33 Biotic invasions: Ecological imperialism in new wave science fiction\n Chapter 34 Alien/Asian: Imagining the racialized future\n Acknowledgment\n Chapter 35 Report from planet midnight\n A reluctant ambassador from the planet of midnight\n Afterword\n Chapter 36 Future histories and cyborg labor: Reading borderlands science ­fiction after NAFTA\n Recommended further reading\nList of contributors\nIndex