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Biotechnological and Medical Themes in Science Fiction

Domna Pastourmatzi

First published 2002
Publisher University Studio Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
Pages 512
ISBN 9601211330

Book given for free (so no price on it).
Artist not credited.
No printing rank (probable 1st).
Note that some of the essays are in greek and are not entered here.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
11 Science Fiction in the Biotech Age Domna Pastourmatzi Essay
29 Internalizing the Final Frontier Candas Jane Dorsey Essay
39 I Want to Be Your Sex Symbol: Exploring Objectification, Cultural Definition and the Manipulation of Desire via the Metaphor of Bio-engineering in Resisting Adonis Timothy J. Anderson Essay
49 The Brain Plague: Brains and Biology in Science Fiction Joan L. Slonczewski Essay
57 Science Fiction Needs the Dreams That Science Is Made Of Athena Andreadis Essay
68 What's the Hurry? How Biotechnological Advances Can Make Interstellar Civilization Possible Without Fantasy Space Drives Gerald David Nordley Essay
87 Transplant Medicine and Transformative Narrative, or Is Science Fiction "Rubbish"? Susan M. Squier Essay
111 Bio-Slavery or The cannibalistic Quest for Longevity: Harvesting for Human Organs in Manjula's Padmanbhan's Futuristic Drama Zoe Detsi-Diamanti Essay
131 Science Fiction Parables of Mutation and Cloning as/and Cognition Darko Suvin Essay
152 Bone of my Bones, Flesh of my Flesh: A Brief History of the Clone in Science Fiction Janeen Webb Essay
165 Cloning Out of Love: Jacques Testart's Eve ou la répétition Domna Pastourmatzi Essay
186 "The Malediction of the Clones"?: Huxley, Mitchison, Haldane Maria Aline Ferreira Essay
208 "None of Woman Born": Colonizing the Womb from Frankenstein's Mother to Naomi Mitchison's Clone Mums Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou Essay
225 The Questioning of Cultural Norms in X-Men (2000) Monika Messner Essay
232 Fading Bodies: The Invisible in Science Fiction Claudia Schwarz Essay
243 "Prophecies are Rugged and Dirty:" Algeny as Metaphor in Cronenberg's Cinematic Vision of the Future Michalis Kokonis Essay
289 A Terrible Beauty: David Zindell and the Trans-human Condition Andrew Enstice Essay
299 Quaker Ethos as Science Praxis in Joan L. Slonczewski A Door Into Ocean Edward F. Higgins Essay
314 Loving Insects Can Be Dangerous: Assessing the Cost of Life in Octavia Estelle Butler's Novella "Bloodchild" (1984) Brigitte Scheer-Schäzler Essay
323 Biotech Bodies, Identity and Power in Works by Rebecca Ore, Pat Cadigan, Greg Egan, and Greg Bear Elisabeth Kraus Essay
335 Beyond the Frankenscientist: Biotech and Biomedical Themes in Recent Australian Science Fiction Russell Blackford Essay
351 "Tomorrow is wet and squishy": Biotechnological Comedy Gone Horror in Paul Di Filippo's Ribofunk Pawel Frelik Essay
361 How Is Genetic Engineering a Sign and a Cause of the Deterioration of Human Nature? Dick's Answer in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? William Schultz Essay
371 Criminal Biology: Genetic Crime Thrillers and the Future of Social Control Neil Gerlach Essay
397 Scientific, Ethical and Political Ramifications of Humankind's Biological Diversification as Extrapolated in Contemporary Anglophone Science Fiction Spyros Vretos Essay
406 "Wishes of Man": Exploring Problems of Identity in Times of Change, as Reflected in Science Fiction Drawing upon Themes of Biotechnology Nerina Kioseoglou Essay
413 Genetic Manipulation: Concerns and Hopes in Diamantis Florakis's Ta Gonidia tis Agiotitas Ioannis Vassiliadis Essay
423 Hellenic Children's Science Fiction: Biotechnological and Biomedical Findings in Kira Sinou's Texts Georgios D. Papantonakis Essay
438 Science Fiction in the World of Contemporary Visual Arts: The European Science Fiction Comics Culture Evi D. Sampanikou Essay
474 "Remember the Future": The Emergence of a "New" Terminal Identity and Orlan's Surgical Body Art Tatiana Rapatzikou Essay