MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2012050031
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020 $a9780819573667 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0819573663 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780819573674 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0819573671 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPN3433.5$b.P34 2013
082 00 $a809.3/8762$223
245 00 $aParabolas of science fiction /$cedited by Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger.
264 1 $aMiddletown, Connecticut :$bWesleyan University Press,$c[2013]
264 4 $c©2013
300 $axv, 312 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 279-298) and index.
505 0 $aScience fictional parabolas: jazz, geometry, and generation starships / Brian Attebery -- Dancing with Scheherazade: some reflections in the Djinni's glass / Terry Dowling -- Breaking the frame / Graham Sleight -- Katherine MacLean's short science fiction and cytology: science as parabola / Jane Donawerth -- Second contact: the first contact story in Latin American science fiction / Rachel Haywood Ferreira -- Parabolas of SFQ: Canadian science fiction in French and the making of a "national" subgenre / Amy J. Ransom -- The domestic SF parabola / Lisa Yaszek -- Mad scientists, chimps, and mice with human brains: collapsing boundaries in science fiction / L. Timmel Duchamp -- Coded transmissions: gender and genre reception in The matrix / David M. Higgins -- The mad scientist, the failed experiment, and the queer family of man: Sirius, Frankenstein, and the SF stockroom / John Rieder -- Back to the filthy workshop: "faithful" film adaptations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Nicholas Ruddick -- The future of the past: science fiction, retro, and retrofuturism / Pawe± Frelik -- Babylon revisited: alternate cosmologies from Farmer to Chiang / Gary K. Wolfe -- Science fiction as archive fever / Veronica Hollinger.
650 0 $aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism.
700 1 $aAttebery, Brian,$d1951-$eeditor of compilation.
700 1 $aHollinger, Veronica,$eeditor of compilation.