...Ursula K. Heise This essay examines the convergence of the science-fiction motif of terraforming with current discussions of the Anthropocene. In the process, it outlines a vision of the city, not as the antithesis to nature or a biological wasteland but as itself a form of nature. This vision...

... thematic concerns and formal structures, especially its concern with point of view and language, make this novel a global fiction of sorts. The novel's often criticized science fiction elements in particular can be elucidated, I argue, by Ulrich Beck's utopian observation that “it is the future...

...Ian Afflerbach Abstract Cixin Liu's science fiction trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past has sold more than 8 million copies and earned him the first Hugo Award to an Asian writer; it represents Chinese SF's breakout success in the anglophone fiction market. While his novels have received...

... specialized language, closed social spaces, and charismatic leadership—has its origins in antitotalitarian political science, fiction, sociology, and psychology. Mitchell and Haruki Murakami (discussed briefly) both question how this Cold War legacy has shaped our understandings of individual agency, and both...

... Thinks … (2002) transform this problem of qualia into a formal problem of narrative style. Finally, this article shows that such conceptual transactions between cognitive science and contemporary literature move in both directions. While recent fiction has integrated the discourses and problems posed...

... Critical Dystopias of Katharine Burdekin, Margaret Atwood, and Octavia Butler.” Future Females, the Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism . Ed. Barr Marleen S. . Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield , 2000 . 13 – 34 . ———. “‘A Useful Knowledge...

... . Science Fiction Studies 2 . 1 ( 1975 ) < http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm >. Rickels Laurence A. Nazi Psychoanalysis , vol. 3 , Psy Fi . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2002 . Lost in the Labyrinth Laurence A. Rickels, I Think...

...Gage McWeeny The oblique interrelations of characters through complex social networks—the Empire of the Little which so much occupies mid-nineteenth-century realism—constituted for fiction a “new social continent,” as Fredric Jameson has suggested. But this continent has more than one discoverer...

... in “The Trials of Arabella,” Briony’s juvenile drama. Immodesty and Science in Saturday Atonement, because it focuses on Briony and on the epistemological immodesty concealed in certain conceptualizations of art and fiction, is an important coun- terpoint to Saturday.6 Banville’s...

...Steve Nathaniel Abstract This article describes Virginia Woolf's preoccupation with acoustics and its relationship both to her writing process and to the development of sensibility that she narrativizes in The Waves . It situates Woolf's theoretical and fictional models of listening with respect...

... that are themselves definitive of reality” (780). Rather than subverting science’s capacity to represent reality, showmanship with spectacular machines helped make scientific knowledge real. The performative dimension of Fielding’s fiction, and Tom Jones in particular, likewise needs to be understood...

... novel form around the attractions and reactions that organized social and psychological life in his city. Victorian sciences—particularly the work of George Henry Lewes and Charles Darwin—were turning to “net-work” to describe the plastic processes underpinning biological life. Dickens's fiction used...

.... In retrospect, the novel's experimentalism can be seen as the first, false step in a journey of reinvention whose ultimate destination was science fiction, the genre that would dominate her output through the 1970s and early 1980s. The key reason for this has been missed. The Golden Notebook' s struggle...

... is both a philosophical and an aesthetic move, one with significant ramifications for theories of race and genre. In The Metamorphoses of Science Fiction (1979), Darko Suvin defines paraliterature as “the popular, ‘low,’ or plebeian literary production of various times, particularly since...

... African fiction genre fiction postcolonial fiction science fiction smart cities urban studies Something has happened to postcolonial fiction. Recent city novels set in the global South often depart from earlier postcolonial fiction, in which the sense of geopolitical possibility remained...

... of apocalyptic social breakdown precipitated by extreme weather, sea-level rise, and hellfire temperatures. Science fiction has been fascinated by apocalyptic scenarios for many decades, with nuclear Armageddon and epidemic disease among the favored tropes of mass destruction. But the new ‘‘cli has an uneasy...

... guilt Thomas Piketty realism science fiction Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century has sparked skirmishes and even outright bloodbaths about everything from spreadsheets to hidden “fudge factors” to the virtues of replacing income tax with a levy on assets. His views on Jane...

... Georg Lukács Fredric Jameson science fiction English translations of Georg Lukács's The Historical Novel and The Theory of the Novel were published in 1962 and 1971, respectively, five years before and four years after the founding of Novel . ( Studies in European Realism had appeared...

...JERRY PHILLIPS Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 Works Cited Bauman , Zygmunt . Modernity and the Holocaust . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1989 . Beal , Frances M. “Black Scholar Interview with Octavia Butler: Black Women and Science Fiction Genre.” Black Scholar 17 ( 1986...

...”—the science of the excerpt is to find the right passage of text to produce a series of affects identical in nature, if abbreviated in time, to the series of affects the novel under consideration produces. Unlike the censorious critics interested only in the moral effects of fiction or the lazy critics...