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The Influence of Imagination: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy As Agents of Social Change

Lee Easton & Randy Schroeder

First published	2008
Publisher	McFarland & Company
Format	Trade Paperback
Type	Nonfiction
Cover art	Shutterstock
Pages	viii+228
ISBN	9780786432301

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Page	Title	Author(s)	Type
1	From FutureVisions to Critical Singularities	uncredited	Essay
5	Polarities at the Singularity	Randy Schroeder	Essay
27	The Continuum of Meaning: A Reflection on Speculative Fiction and Society	Marie Jakober	Essay
32	Peter Jackson and the Deforestation of Middle Earth	David Hyttenrauch	Essay
44	Seeking Stories: Possible Worlds Semantics in Greer Ilene Gilman's Moonwise	Christine Mains	Essay
55	"Dancing on the Edge of the World": Califormia and Utopia in Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home	Ken Simpson	Essay
70	Passing Genes in GATTACA, or, Straight Genes for the Queer Guy	Lee Easton	Essay
83	The Changing Role of Women in Science Fiction: Weird Tales, 1925-1940	Mary Hemmings	Essay
92	Storytelling and Folktales: A Graphic Exploration	Gail de Vos	Essay
99	The Graphic Novel as New Testament: On Narrative Progress, Cultural Change, and the Heroic Story	Richard Harrison	Essay
108	Science Fiction, Religion, and Social Change	Steven Engler	Essay
118	Science and Science Fiction	Todd C. Nickle	Essay
125	Olaf Stapledon's Americanized Planet	Robert Boschman	Essay
131	Nalo Hopkinson's Colonial and Dystopic Worlds in Midnight Robber	Ruby S. Ramraj	Essay
139	"Wartime Inventions with Peaceful Intentions": Television and the Media Cyborg in C.L. Moore No Woman Born	Linda Howell	Essay
160	The Fantasy of Gender/Sex: Angela Carter and Mythmaking	Darlene M. Juschka	Essay
174	In the Spirit of Process: A Braiding Together of Ne Utopianism, Gilles Deleuze, and Anne Carson	Jacqueline Plante	Essay
183	Dystopia in a New land	Karen Huenneman	Essay
202	Surfing the Singularity: Science Fiction and the Future of Narrative Media	Brian Greenspan	Essay