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Article: Peter Freese and Charles B. Harris, eds. The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction.(Book review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- December 22, 2005
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Peter Freese and Charles B. Harris, eds. The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2004. xxviii + 383 pp. $19.95
The academic market is glutted with grab-bag anthologies on every and any trendy topic, and even effective collections often lean too heavily toward the expert or the novice, lost in details too arcane or repeating claims too familiar for a majority of readers. This 2004 volume compiles work delivered at a late-2003 German-American conference on "Science, Technology, and the Humanities in Recent American Fiction," a provenance that can also provoke suspicion, given the speedy ...