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Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction de James Gunn

Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction

Editat de James Gunn, Matthew Candelaria Contribuţii de Brian Aldiss, Judith Berman, Kathryn Cramer, Samuel R. Delany, Colin Greenland, David G. Hartwell, James Patrick Kelly, Paul Kincaid, Ursula K. Le Guin, Barry Malzberg, Alexei Panshin, Cory Panshin, Robert Scholes, Professor or Dr. Darko Suvin, Michael Swanwick, Gary K. Wolfe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 dec 2004
Science fiction is a field of literature that has great interest and great controversy among its writers and critics. This book examines the roots, history, development, current status, and future directions of the field through articles contributed by well-respected science fiction writers, teachers, and critics. The articles 'speculate' on what is science fiction, is science fiction serious literature, which writers are considered good science fiction writers, and where the genre of science fiction is headed with 21st-century writers. Contributors include Brian W. Aldiss, Kathryn Cramer, Samuel R. Delany , David G. Hartwell, Ursula K. Le Guin, Barry N. Malzberg, Darko Suvin, Michael Swanwick, and many other outstanding authors. Examining all genres and subgenres of science fiction writing, this book provides differing viewpoints on science fiction, making it a great basis for dynamic classroom discussions.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780810849020
ISBN-10: 081084902X
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 138 x 214 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Scarecrow Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Part 1 Acknowledgments
Part 2 Introduction
Part 3 Before We Begin
Part 4 Part I: Identification
Chapter 5 1 Toward a Definition of Science Fiction
Chapter 6 2 Coming to Terms
Chapter 7 3 Estrangement and Cognition
Chapter 8 4 The Number of the Beast
Chapter 9 5 On the Origins of Genre
Chapter 10 Part II: Location
Chapter 11 6 SF and the Genological Jungle
Chapter 12 7 The Readers of Hard Science Fiction
Chapter 13 8 Science Fiction and "Literature" - or, The Conscience of the King
Chapter 14 9 Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown
Chapter 15 10 I Could Have Been a Contender....
Part 16 Part III: Derivations
Chapter 17 11 Introduction to Trillion Year Spree
Chapter 18 12 On the Origin of Species: Mary Shelley
Chapter 19 13 The Roots of Science Fiction
Chapter 20 14 Science Fiction and the Dimension of Myth
Part 21 Part IV: Excavation
Chapter 22 15 Some Notes toward the True and the Terrible
Chapter 23 16 Wrong Rabbit
Chapter 24 17 The "Field" and the "Wave": The History of New Worlds
Chapter 25 18 Space Opera Redefined
Part 26 Part V: Infatuation
Chapter 27 19 The Golden Age of Science Fiction Is Twelve
Chapter 28 20 Some Presumptuous Approaches to Science Fiction
Chapter 29 21 Touchstones
Part 30 Part VI: Anticipation
Chapter 31 22 A User's Guide to the Postmoderns
Chapter 32 23 Science Fiction without the Future
Chapter 33 24 Slipstream
Part 34 Bibliography
Part 35 Index
Part 36 About the Contributors

Recenzii

There are at least two obvious responses to the statement that Speculations on Speculation a group of essay son science fiction criticism, is one of the two or three most exciting books, fiction or nonfiction, that I have read recently: first, I'velost my mind, which, given that I have at one point or another lost track of nearly everything else, is a distinct possibility; second, this book must be very stimulating indeed, which I happen to think is the correct answer....There are too many substantial and sometimes brilliant contributions to this collection to discuss them all in detail, or even in passing. They range from Darko Suvin's scholarly essays soaked in Russian Formalism through Barry N. Malzberg's brash and challenging commentaries, through a fascinating contribution by Alexei and Cory Panshin linking science fiction to the 13th century Sufi poet Ibn Arabi, to Ursula K. LeGuin's Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown, which is pure - well, pure LeGuin. And, as might be expected in a field thatis composed of individuals who are very strongly individual, there isn't much in the way of consensus: Suvin more or less dismisses the mythic element in science fiction, which is the focus of the Panshins' essay - a not untypical occurrence....Specul
...[a] useful addition to your professional library...Speculations on Speculation could be a part of an excellent course of essential reading on the genre and theory of sf.
This varied and balanced survey will be of greatest value to veteran readers of SF and especially to teachers and would-be-critics of SF.
Writers and critics of science fiction discuss the genre and its elements in 24 reprinted articles and essays on identification, location, derivation, excavation, infatuation, and anticipation. Among the offerings are Ursula K. Le Guin on science fiction and Mrs. Brown, Brian W. Aldiss and David Wingrove on Mary Shelley and the origin of the species, Samuel R. Delany on some presumptuous approaches to science fiction, and Michael Swanwick with a user's guide to the postmoderns.