Science Fiction, Critical Frontiers

Download or read book Science Fiction, Critical Frontiers written by NA NA and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction has recently been identified as providing the narrative paradigm for postmodernity. This volume of essays combines theoretical discussions of the nature of science fiction, with specific studies of utopian and dystopian narratives. Alongside of this, the essays here address feminist and African American issues, the envisioning of radical alternative realities and futures, cyborgs, cyberpunk and cyber-space, age and aging, hybridity and monstrosity, and contemporary society and the postmodern condition.