The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction

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This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.

Author(s): Gerry Canavan; Eric Carl Link
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2015

Language: English
Commentary: Removed duplicate pages, Added bookmarks
Pages: 290

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Contents
Introduction
PART I: Histories and Contexts
1 The Mightiest Machine: The Development of American Science Fiction from the 1920s to the 1960s
2 Dangerous Visions: New Wave and Post–New Wave Science Fiction
3 American Science Fiction after 9/11
4 Afrofuturism in American Science Fiction
5 Feminist and Queer Science Fiction in America
6 The Futures Market: American Utopias
PART II: Media and Form
7 American Slipstream: Science Fiction and Literary Respectability
8 Hollywood Science Fiction
9 U.S. Superpower and Superpowered Americans in Science Fiction and Comic Books
10 Digital Games and Science Fiction
11 Fandom and Fan Culture
PART III: Themes and Perspectives
12 American Frontiers
13 Science, Technology, and the Environment
14 American Weird
15 After America