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What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction
| Author: | Paul Kincaid |
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Beccon Publications, 2008 |
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| Book Type: | Non-Fiction |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
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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