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What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction

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What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction

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Author: Paul Kincaid
Publisher: Beccon Publications, 2008
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Book Type: Non-Fiction
Genre: Science-Fiction
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Paul Kincaid offers up thirty-three essays and lengthy reviews in What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction. These essays are divided by Kincaid into several different topics, ranging from a look at British author Christopher Priest (4 essays) to a look at the genre in whole or part.

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION
iii - Acknowledgements
v - Introducing Paul Kincaid - by David Langford
I : THEORY
3 - What it is we do when we read Science Fiction
13 - On the Origins of Genre
II : PRACTICE
25 - Anatomising Science Fiction
29 - How Hard is SF?
41 - The New Hard Men of SF
49 - Mistah Kurtz, He Dead
61 - The North-South Continuum
75 - A Year at its Best?
III : CHRISTOPHER PRIEST
89 - Blank pages: Islands and Identity in the Fiction of Christopher Priest
107 - Mirrors, Doubles, Twins
129 - "The Discharge"
133 - 10/10 May/May: Singling Out the Duplication in The Separation
IV : BRITAIN ...
141 - Islomania? Insularity?: The Myth of the Island in British Science Fiction
149 - Apres moi...
153 - Elegy
157 - Touching the Earth
165 - Inside Chris Evans
173 - The Furies
189 - Maps of a Curious Sort: Landscape in the Fiction of Keith Roberts
197 - In the Pickle Jar: Appleseed or Mimesis
V : ...AND THE WORLD
207 - Secret Maps
237 - Exhibits
255 - Entering the Labyrinth
267 - Emptiness Gets Into You
273 - Forever Haldeman
277 - A Mode of Head-on Collision: George Turner's Critical Relationship with Science Fiction
291 - Heterotopic Borders
VI : GENE WOLFE
297 - Images of the Fall
307 - We Joke for Gods
321 - False Dog
325 - Attending Daedalus
VII : 1 APRIL 1984
331 - By-ways of the Shining Path
VIII : NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
335 - Notes
339 - Sources
343 - Bibliography
IX : INDEX
351 - Index - compiled by Leigh Kennedy Priest

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