Science Fiction Stories and Contexts

Name: Science Fiction Stories and Contexts
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ISBN: 9780312450151

ISBN-10: 031245015X

ISBN-13: 9780312450151

Edition: 2009

Authors: Heather Masri

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Excellent collections of science fiction abound, but very few have been prepared expressly for classroom use. Heather Masri, editor ofScience Fiction: Stories and Contexts, has prepared an anthology that recognizes, and is designed to meet, the needs of students and instructors in an introductory survey course in science fiction.Grouped into major themes, her comprehensive selection of fiction enjoyable and captivating stories, notable for their literary, philosophical, and cultural richness are by classic and emerging writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The stories are uniquely complemented by contextual documents that suggest the scholarly, theoretical, and…

Book details

List price: $62.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 12/19/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.948
Language: English



Preface


Chronological


A Brief Introduction to Science Fiction and Its History


A Selective Guide to Science Fiction Research



Alien Encounters



Mars Is Heaven!(1948)



When I Was Miss Dow(1966)



Vaster Than Empires and More Slow(1971)



Bloodchild(1984)



Wang's Carpets(1995)



Slow Life(2002)


Critical Contexts for Alien Encounters



The Shadow(1951)



The Fact of Blackness(1952)



Artificial Life



The Sandman(1816) Mary Shelley, fromFrankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus(1818; 1831)



R.U.R.(1921)



Liar!(1941)



Second Variety(1953)



"Baby, You Were Great!" (1967)



The Girl Who Was Plugged In(1973)



Burning Chrome(1985)



Nekropolis(1994)



The Algorithms for Love(2004)


Critical Contexts for Artificial Life



The Uncanny(1919; 1924)



The Precession of Simulacra(1981)



"A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist


Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985; 1991)



Time



Master Zacharius(1854)



The Gostak and the Doshes(1930)



Vintage Season(1946)



"All You Zombies — " (1959)



When We Went to See the End of the World(1972)



The Lucky Strike(1984)



At the Rialto(1989)



Story of Your Life(1998)



Start the Clock(2004)


Critical Contexts on Time Jean-Paul Sartre, fromBeing and Nothingness(1943)



The Historian and His Facts(1961)



To Build a Time Machine(1994)



Utopias and Dystopias Yevgeny Zamyatin, fromWe(1921)



The Weapon Shop(1942)



Country of the Kind(1955)



"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman(1965)



When It Changed(1972)



The Persistence of Vision(1978)



Kirinyaga(1988)



Dead Space for the Unexpected(1994)



Something to Hitch Meat to(2001)


Critical Contexta for Utopias and Dystopias