Speaking Science Fiction: Dialogues and Interpretations

Title Page......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Speaking Science Fiction: Introduction......Page 8
Who Speaks Science Fiction?......Page 12
Science Fiction Dialogues......Page 18
Speaking of Homeplace, Speaking from Someplace......Page 28
Speaking Science Fiction—Out of Anxiety?......Page 39
Science Fiction as Language: Postmodernism and Mainstream: Some Reflections......Page 47
‘Fantastic Dialogues’: Critical Stories about Feminism and Science Fiction......Page 59
Vicissitudes of the Voice, Speaking Science Fiction......Page 76
‘A Language of the Future’: Discursive Constructions of the Subject in A Clockwork Orange and Random Acts of Senseless Violence......Page 89
Speaking the Body: The Embodiment of ‘Feminist’ Cyberpunk......Page 103
Bodies that Speak Science Fiction: Stelarc—Performance Artist ‘Becoming Posthuman’......Page 116
Science Fiction and the Gender of Knowledge......Page 138
Corporatism and the Corporate Ethos in Robert Heinlein’s ‘The Roads Must Roll’......Page 151
Convention and Displacement: Narrator, Narratee, and Virtual Reader in Science Fiction......Page 165
Aphasia and Mother Tongue: Themes of Language Creation and Silence in Women’s Science Fiction......Page 186
‘My Particular Virus’: (Re-)Reading Jack Womack’s Dryco Chronicles......Page 195
Aliens in the Fourth Dimension......Page 208
Freefall in Inner Space: From Crash to Crash Technology......Page 221
Notes on Contributors......Page 240
Index......Page 244