Deconstructing the Starships
Essays and Review
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
232 pages
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6 x 9
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© 1998
The subject matter of this collection is varied, but displays Jones’ stance as a practicing SF writer and a feminist; the writing is characterized by both an incisive engagement with the texts and a refusal to dress that engagement in jargon. This very readable book provides insight into the work of one of the UK's most interesting writers and presents strong – sometimes even subversive – views of a range of modern SF and fantasy.
"Gwyneth Jones is one of the two or three most important writers of the current sf boom in the UK... from the evidence in this book it is clear she is also one of the most reflective and readable sf critics working today."—Science Fiction Studies
"Gwyneth Jones is one of the two or three most important writers of the current sf boom in the UK... from the evidence in this book it is clear she is also one of the most reflective and readable sf critics working today."—Science Fiction Studies
Science Fiction Studies
"Gwyneth Jones is one of the two or three most important writers of the current sf boom in the UK... from the evidence in this book it is clear she is also one of the most reflective and readable sf critics working today."
-- Science Fiction Studies
Contents
Foreword
I: ALL SCIENCE IS DESCRIPTION
Introduction
1. Getting Rid of the Brand Names
2. The Lady and the Scientists
3. Dreamer: An Exercise in Extrapolation 1989-2019
4. My Crazy Uncles: C.S. Lewis and Tolkien as Writers for Children
II: SCIENCE, FICTION AND REALITY
5. Fools: The Neuroscience of Cyberspace
6. Trouble (Living in the Machine)
7. Sex: The Brains of Female Hyena Twins
8. Aliens in the Fourth Dimension
III: THE REVIEWS
9. In the Chinks of the World Machine: Sarah Lefanu on Feminist SF
10. Consider Her ways: The Fiction of C.J. Cherryh
11. Alien Sex: Ellen Datlow's Overview of the SF Orgasm
12. The Boys Want to be with the Boys: Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
13. Glory Season: David Brin's Feminist Utopia
14. Virtual Light: A Shocking Dose of Comfort and Joy from William Gibson
15. Return to the Age of Wonder: John Barnes's A Million Open Doors
16. Winterlong: Elizabeth Hand at the End of the World
17. Plague of Angels: The Fiction of Sheri Tepper
18. The Furies: Suzy Charnas Beyond the End of the World
19. Alien Influences: Kristine Kathryn Rusch in the Dark
20. No Man's Land: Feminised Landscapes in the Utopian Fiction of Ursula Le Guin
Notes Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
I: ALL SCIENCE IS DESCRIPTION
Introduction
1. Getting Rid of the Brand Names
2. The Lady and the Scientists
3. Dreamer: An Exercise in Extrapolation 1989-2019
4. My Crazy Uncles: C.S. Lewis and Tolkien as Writers for Children
II: SCIENCE, FICTION AND REALITY
5. Fools: The Neuroscience of Cyberspace
6. Trouble (Living in the Machine)
7. Sex: The Brains of Female Hyena Twins
8. Aliens in the Fourth Dimension
III: THE REVIEWS
9. In the Chinks of the World Machine: Sarah Lefanu on Feminist SF
10. Consider Her ways: The Fiction of C.J. Cherryh
11. Alien Sex: Ellen Datlow's Overview of the SF Orgasm
12. The Boys Want to be with the Boys: Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
13. Glory Season: David Brin's Feminist Utopia
14. Virtual Light: A Shocking Dose of Comfort and Joy from William Gibson
15. Return to the Age of Wonder: John Barnes's A Million Open Doors
16. Winterlong: Elizabeth Hand at the End of the World
17. Plague of Angels: The Fiction of Sheri Tepper
18. The Furies: Suzy Charnas Beyond the End of the World
19. Alien Influences: Kristine Kathryn Rusch in the Dark
20. No Man's Land: Feminised Landscapes in the Utopian Fiction of Ursula Le Guin
Notes Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
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