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When Genres Collide: Selected Essays from the 37th Annual Meeting of the Science Fiction Research Association, June 22-25, 2006, White Plains, New York

Thomas J. Morrissey & Oscar De Los Santos

First published 2007
Publisher Fine Tooth Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
Cover art JP Briggs
Pages 239
Price $34.95
ISBN 9780979477096

Contents from OCLC.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Science Fiction and the War on Science in Contemporary Society Bruce L. Rockwood Essay
17 The Language of Genre: Science Fiction and Mainstream Ideology William Lomax Essay
xi Introduction (When Genres Collide) Thomas J. Morrissey & Oscar De Los Santos Essay
|10 Beauty and the Beast in Space: Tanith Lee's SF Fairy Tales Christine Mains Essay
|11 Time Travel and the Fairy-Tale Heroine: Ecofeminism in Sheri S. Tepper's Beauty Annette Doblix Klemp Essay
|12 Once Upon a Time There were Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, and Joyce Carol Oates: Children's Literature Tropes in Mainstream American Fiction Kelly L. Goodridge Essay
|13 Civility Amidst Savagery: Bisclavret and Remus Lupin Brent Stypczynski Essay
|14 Magic, Art, Religion, Science: Blurring the Boundaries of Science and Science Fiction in Marge Piercy's Cyborgian Narrative Linda Wight Essay
|15 The Religions of Battlestar Galactica: Making Human, Making Other James H. Thrall Essay
|16 Childhood Dreams: The Young, the Old, and the Alien Visitor in 1980s American Science Fiction Film Lincoln Geraghty Essay
|17 Reads Like Teen Spirit: Commodification and Generation X Sensibilities in Eileen Gunn and Leslie What's "Nirvana High" Jen Brandt Essay
|18 Apocalyptic Vision, the Mythos of the Rocket, and the Failure of the Individual in Thomas Pynchon's Alternate History, Gravity's Rainbow JJ Sargent Essay
|19 Would You Insure Humanity? Spinrad, Kress and Other SF Actuaries Weigh the Risks Thomas J. Morrissey Essay
|20 Cold Equations: Making Sense of an SF Writer's Work (The Case of Philip K. Dick) Jorge Martins Rosa Essay
|21 Echoes Across a Half-Century: Ray Bradbury's Leviathan 99 Phil Nichols Essay
|22 Norman Spinrad's Mind Games, Flawed Idols, and Controlled Systems of (Dis)Order Oscar De Los Santos Essay
|3 Postcolonial Science Fiction: Towards a Theory of an Emerging Genre Ericka Hoagland Essay
|4 The Byronic Figure in Science Fiction Film Adam Frisch Essay
|5 When the Unreal World Meets the Surreal World in TV Land Lou Orfanella Essay
|6 Noir/Alien/Detectives: Chad Taylor's Shirker Joe Sanders Essay
|7 Deducing the Fantastic: The Detective's Search for Speculative Certainty John Garrison Essay
|8 The Bounty Hunter and the Hired Gun: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and the Post-McCarthy Era Adult Western Robert O'Connor Essay
|9 Doing It Cowboy Style: The Possibilities of Genre and Sex in Joss Whedon's Firefly Matthew Rowheder Essay