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Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction

Tom Shippey

First published 2016
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Gray Morrow
Pages xvi+334
ISBN 9781781382615

Probable first printing.
No price on book (£75.00 on publisher's site at the time of buying by PV1).
Each essay is preceded by a kind of titled introduction (original), listed here.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Coming Out of the Science Fiction Closet Tom Shippey Essay
6 Learning to Read Science Fiction Tom Shippey Essay
24 Rejecting Gesture Politics Tom Shippey Essay
26 Literary Gatekeepers and the Fabril Tradition Tom Shippey Essay
47 Getting Away from the Facilior Lectio Tom Shippey Essay
50 Semiotic Ghosts and Ghostlinesses in the Work of Bruce Sterling Tom Shippey Essay
67 Getting Serious with the Fans Tom Shippey Essay
70 Science Fiction and the Idea of History Tom Shippey Essay
85 Getting to Grips with the Issue of Cultures... Tom Shippey Essay
89 Cultural Engineering: A Theme in Science Ficton Tom Shippey Essay
103 ...And Not Fudging the Issue! Tom Shippey Essay
106 People Are Plastic: Jack Vance & the Dilemma of Cultural Relativism Tom Shippey Essay
121 SF Authors Really Mean What They Say Tom Shippey Essay
124 Alternate Historians: Newt, Kingers, Harry and Me Tom Shippey Essay
141 A Revealing Failure by Critics Tom Shippey Essay
144 Kingsley Amis's Science Fiction and the Problems of Genre Tom Shippey Essay
160 A Glimpse of Structuralist Possibility Tom Shippey Essay
162 The Golden Bough and the Incorporations of Magic in Science Fiction Tom Shippey Essay
182 Serious Issues, Serious Traumas, Emotional Depth Tom Shippey Essay
185 The Magic Art and the Evolution of Words: Ursula Le Guin "Earthsea" Trilogy Tom Shippey Essay
207 A First Encounter with Politics Tom Shippey Essay
209 The Cold War in Science Fiction, 1940-1960 Tom Shippey Essay
229 Language Corruption, and Rocking the Boat Tom Shippey Essay
233 Variations on Newspeak: The Open Question of Nineteen Eighty-Four Tom Shippey Essay
255 Just Before the Disaster Tom Shippey Essay
258 The Fall of America in Science Fiction Tom Shippey Essay
274 Why Politicians, and Producers, Should Read Science Fiction Tom Shippey Essay
277 The Critique of America in Contemporary Science Fiction Tom Shippey Essay
293 Saying (When Necessary) the Lamentable Word Tom Shippey Essay
296 Starship Troopers, Galactic Heroes, Mercenary Princes: The Military and its Discontents in Science Fiction Tom Shippey Essay
xi A Personal Preface Tom Shippey Essay