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Article: Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon, eds., Edging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2004
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Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon, eds., Edging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 278 pp.
In the brief time it has been before the world, Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon's new anthology has already provoked some sharply conflicting critical responses. Science-Fiction Studies (vol. 29, #3) has published a rave review of unqualified praise by the eminent Katherine Hayles, while Utopian Studies (vol. 13, #2) has weighed in with a harshly (though not totally) negative judgment by the equally eminent Marleen Barr. Although there are, in general, few places I distrust ...