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The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction
| Author: | Eric Carl Link Gerry Canavan |
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Cambridge University Press, 2015 |
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| Book Type: | Non-Fiction |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience. Science fiction in America has long served to reflect the country's hopes, desires, ambitions, and fears. The ideas and conventions associated with science fiction are pervasive throughout American film and television, comics and visual arts, games and gaming, and fandom, as well as across the culture writ large.
Through essays that address not only the history of science fiction in America but also the influence and significance of American science fiction throughout media and fan culture, this companion serves as a key resource for scholars, teachers, students, and fans of science fiction.
Contents:
- 1 - Introduction (The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction) - essay by Eric Carl Link and Gerry Canavan
- 17 - The Mightiest Machine: The Development of American Science Fiction from the 1920s to the 1960s - essay by Gary Westfahl
- 31 - Dangerous Visions: New Wave and Post-New Wave Science Fiction - essay by Darren Harris-Fain
- 44 - American Science Fiction after 9/11 - essay by David M. Higgins
- 58 - Afrofuturism in American Science Fiction - essay by Lisa Yaszek
- 70 - Feminist and Queer Science Fiction in America - essay by Alexis Lothian
- 83 - The Futures Market: American Utopias - essay by Mark Bould
- 99 - American Slipstream: Science Fiction and Literary Respectability - essay by Rob Latham
- 111 - Hollywood Science Fiction - essay by Sherryl Vint
- 125 - U.S. Superpower and Superpowered Americans in Science Fiction and Comic Books - essay by Matthew J. Costello
- 139 - Digital Games and Science Fiction - essay by Patrick Jagoda
- 153 - Fandom and Fan Culture - essay by Karen Hellekson
- 167 - American Frontiers - essay by John Rieder
- 179 - Science, Technology, and the Environment - essay by Priscilla Wald
- 194 - American Weird - essay by Roger Luckhurst
- 206 - After America - essay by Rebekah C. Sheldon
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