| Description |
xii, 211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Lost in space / James Kneale and Rob Kitchin -- 2. The way it wasn't: alternative histories, contingent geographies / Barney Warf -- 3. Geography's conquest of history in The diamond age / Michael Longman and Tim Oakes -- 4. Space, technology and Neal Stephenson's science fiction / Michelle Kendrick -- 5. Geographies of power and social relations in Marge Piercy's He, she and it / Barbara J. Morehouse -- 6. The subjectivity of the near future: geographical imaginings in the work of J.G. Ballard / Jonathan S. Taylor -- 7. Tuning the self: city space and SF horror movies / Stuart C. Aitken -- 8. Science fiction and cinema: the hysterical materialism of pataphysical space / Paul Kingsbury -- 9. An invention without a future, a solution without a problem: motor pirates, time machines and drunkenness on the screen / Marcus A. Doel and David B. Clarke -- 10. What we can say about nature: familiar geographies, science fiction and popular physics / Sheila Hones -- 11. Murray Bookchin on Mars! The production of nature in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy / Shaun Huston -- 12. In the belly of the monster: Frankenstein, food, factishes and fiction / Nick Bingham |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Setting (Literature)
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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Space and time in literature.
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| Author |
Kitchin, Rob.
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Kneale, James.
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| LC no. |
2001032309 |
| ISBN |
0485004488 |
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0485006391 paperback |
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0826457304 |
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0826457312 paperback |
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