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Speaking Science Fiction: Dialogues and Interpretations

Andy Sawyer & David Seed

First published 2000
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages 248
Price £32.99
ISBN 0853238340

Papers originally given at a 1996 conference in Liverpool.

No price and date on book, origin of pub month unknown. Artist not credited.

Year Reviewer Publication
2001 Steve Jeffery Vector 218
2001 Janice M. Bogstad SFRA Review #253

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction (Speaking Science Fiction) Brian W. Aldiss Essay
5 Who Speaks Science Fiction? Andy Sawyer Essay
11 Science Fiction Dialogues David Seed Essay
21 Speaking of HomePlace, Speaking from SomePlace Candas Jane Dorsey Essay
32 Speaking Science Fiction - Out of Anxiety? Josef Nesvadba Essay
40 Science Fiction as Language: Postmodernism and Mainstream: Some Reflections José Manuel Mota Essay
52 'Fantastic Dialogues': Critical Stories about Feminism and Science Fiction Helen Merrick Essay
69 Vicissitudes of the Voice, Speaking Science Fiction Roger Luckhurst Essay
82 'A Language of the Future': Discursive Constructions of the Subject in A Clockwork Orange and Random Acts of Senseless Violence Veronica Hollinger Essay
96 Speaking the Body: The Embodiment of 'Feminist' Cyberpunk Bronwen Calvert & Sue Walsh Essay
109 Bodies that Speak Science Fiction: Stelarc - Performance Artist 'Becoming Posthuman' Ross Farnell Essay
131 Science Fiction and the Gender of Knowledge Brian Attebery Essay
144 Corporatism and the Corporate Ethos in Robert Heinlein's 'The Roads Must Roll' Farah Mendlesohn Essay
158 Convention and Displacement: Narrator, Narratee, and Virtual Reader in Science Fiction Danièle Chatelain & George Slusser Essay
179 Aphasia and Mother Tongue: Themes of Language Creation and Silence in Women's Science Fiction Nickianne Moody Essay
188 'My Particular Virus': (Re-)Reading Jack Womack's Dryco Chronicles Andrew M. Butler Essay
201 Aliens in the Fourth Dimension Gwyneth Jones Essay
216 Freefall in Inner Space: From Crash to Crash Technology · Simon Sellars Simon Sellars Short Fiction

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Speaking Science Fiction: Dialogues and Interpretations Cover 2000 Liverpool University Press Trade Paperback Nonfiction 248