Edging into the future: science fiction and contemporary cultural transformation

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IIntroduction: Edging into the Future Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon PART ONE: GENRE IMPLOSION 1. Evaporating Genre: Strategies of Dissolution in the Postmodern Fantastic -Gary K. Wolfe 2. Omniphage: Rock 'n' Roll and Avant-Pop Science Fiction -Lance Olsen 3. Synthespians, Virtual Humans, and Hypermedia: Emerging Contours of Post-Sf-Film -Brooks Landon PART TWO: IMPLODED SUBJECTS AND REINSCRIPTED BODIES 4. Staying with the Body: Narratives of the Posthuman in Contemporary Science Fiction -Jenny Wolmark 5. But Aren't Those Just ... You Know, Metaphors?: Postmodern Figuration in the Science Fiction of James Morrow and Gwyneth Jones -Brian Attebery 6. Sex/uality and the Figure of the Hermaphrodite in Science Fiction or, The Revenge of Herculine Barbin -Wendy Pearson 7. Mutant Youth: Posthuman Fantasies and High-Tech Consumption in 1990s Science Fiction -Rob Latham 8. Going Postal: Rage, Science Fiction, and the Ends of the American Subject -Roger Luckhurst PART THREE: REIMAGINED APOCALYPSES AND EXPLODED COMMUNITIES 9. Apocalypse Coma -Veronica Hollinger 10. Kairos: The Enchanted Loom -Gwyneth Jones 11. Dead Letters and Their Inheritors: Ecospasmic Crashes and the Post-Mortal Condition in Brian Stableford's Histories of the Future -Brian Stableford 12. Utopia, Genocide, and the Other: Science Fiction Explores the Truly Monstrous Joan Gordon 13. Dis-Imagined Communities: Science Fiction and the Future of Nations -Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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