Recently added articles from Extrapolation:
Zona Gale's Friendship Village: expanding the scope of feminist fabulation and brodening the boundaries of speculative fiction.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Abate, Michelle Ann ... While many writers in the canon of mainstream U.S. literature consider social activism and literary aestheticism to be mutually exclusive, progressive era author and feminist Zona Gale saw them as mutually constructive. In her essay "The Novel and the Spirit," first published in the ...
Becoming and belonging: the productivity of pleasures and desires in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Ackerman, Erin M. pryor ... "Let them learn that it isn't shameful to be together with one another and with us." --Octavia Butler, Xenogenesis Trilogy * In a 2001 essay meditating on a United Nations conference on racism, Octavia Butler asks, "What would make us more tolerant, more peaceful, ...
A woman-Made language: Suzette Haden Elgin's Laadan and the Native Tongue trilogy as thought experiment in feminist linguistics.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Bruce, Karen ... "I am a foreigner to myself in my own language and I translate myself by quoting all the others." --Gagnon 180 "We have to invent a woman's word. But not 'of' woman, 'about' woman, in the way that man's language speaks 'of' woman. Any woman who wants to use a ...
Totemic human-animal relationships in recent Sf.(science fiction)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Dillon, Grace L. ... * Late 19th-and early 20th-century armchair ethnographers from Frazer to Freud based their influential discussions of totemism on European colonizers' accounts of undiscovered territories, unfamiliar communities, and the misunderstood languages of indigenous peoples in North America and ...
The disorientations of A.E. van Vogt.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Jorgensen, Darren ... A.E. van Vogt's place in science fiction history is an ambiguous one. While he was one of the bestselling authors of the 1940s and 1950s, van Vogt has attracted little of the critical appreciation afforded to many of his Golden Age contemporaries. Sf writers and critics like Damon Knight, ...
Heinlein and the Cold War: epistemology and politics in the Puppet Masters and Double Star.(Robert A. Heinlein)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Brown, Joseph F. ... In an essay written the same year as Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein argued for a definition of science fiction as "realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the ...
Institutional crisis: state and scholar in Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game and Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Texter, Douglas W. ... "I am Shiva, the Destroyer of Words" The above epigraph from the Bhagavad Gita was mouthed in 1945 not by a raving Nazi propagandist holed up in a Berlin bunker, nor by a corn-cob-pipe smoking Allied general wading ashore on a Pacific island. Rather, the speaker of these words ...
Solaris as metacommentary: Meta-science fiction and mata-science-fiction.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Klapcsik, Sandor ... Istvan Csicsery-Ronay describes Stanislaw Lem's fiction as "metacommentary," indicating the significance of human cultural constructions such as science, myth, literature, religion, and so on, in his novels. These constructions, which intend to explain the universe, diffuse into various, ...
The Science (Fiction) of Life.(Periodical review)
Mar 22, 2008; Freedman, Carl ... The Science (Fiction) of Life. Special Issue of Biography on "Life Writing and Science Fiction." Vol. 30, No. 1 (Winter 2007). John Rieder, Guest Editor As an increasing number of critics turn their attention to science fiction in a wider and wider variety of academic (and ...
Designing Sounds for Science Fiction.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Telotte, J.P. ... Designing Sounds for Science Fiction. William Whittington. Sound Design and Science Fiction. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. 280pp. $22.95 pbk. * Sound Design and Science Fiction is a compelling book, both for what it brings into play for cinematic analysis and for what ...
Fix(at)ing Technicity.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Wilson, D.Harlan ... Fix(at)ing Technicity. Arthur Bradley and Louis Armand, Eds. Technicity. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006. 375 pp.[euro] 12.00 pbk. * The concept of technicity promulgated in this collection of critical essays assumes that technology (low or high, hard or soft, social or ...