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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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- Utopian Studies
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- January 1, 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. $59.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).
IN EDGING INTO THE FUTURE: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation, Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon have brought together essays written by thirteen of today's science fiction writers and critics. Set against the background of postmodernism, the essays in this collection explore boundaries--cultural, communal, and physical--and the ways in which science fiction both envisions those boundaries and expands or changes them. ...