Sci-Fi

Jack Fennell

ISBN 10: 1788743490 / ISBN 13: 9781788743495

Verlag: Peter Lang Sep 2019, 2019

Beschreibung

Neuware -What is Sci-Fi Science fiction is a non-realist genre that foregrounds a sense of material plausibility, insisting that despite seeming outlandish, it is consonant with history and the laws of nature. By turns subtle and bombastic, sci-fi revels in discovery and revelation, whether through human ingenuity or world-altering paradigm shifts. The same impulse informs both the idealism of Star Trek and the existential terror of Frankenstein.Each chapter of this book examines a specific trope or theme through a different critical lens ¿ including eco-criticism, feminism and historicism ¿ while also providing a historical overview of the genre, from its disputed origins to the pulp era, the New Wave, and the exponential growth of Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurisms. Revered masters such as Isaac Asimov, Octavia Butler and Iain M. Banks are considered alongside newer talents, including Rebecca Roanhorse and N. K. Jemisin. Other chapters provide overviews of different media, from television (Doctor Who, Westworld) to comics/manga (2000AD, Métal Hurlant), video games (Deus Ex: Human Revolution) and theatre (Alistair McDowall¿s X).Sci-Fi: A Companion not only provides an accessible introduction to sci-fi for general readers and researchers alike, but also illuminates new approaches to a familiar genre.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 248 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781788743495

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Sci-Fi
• Verlag: Peter Lang Sep 2019
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1788743490
• ISBN-13: 9781788743495
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

What is Sci-Fi? Science fiction is a non-realist genre that revels in discovery and revelation, whether through human ingenuity or world-altering paradigm shifts. With accessible chapters on key texts appealing to both general readers and researchers, this volume offers a useful survey of the genre, from Octavia Butler to Westworld.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jack Fennell is a science fiction researcher, author and translator based in Limerick, Ireland. He is the author of the critical study Irish Science Fiction (2014) and the editor of the Irish sci-fi anthology A Brilliant Void (2018).