03850nam 2200709Ia 450 991045742010332120200520144314.01-283-30269-197866133026941-61148-375-1(CKB)2550000000057227(EBL)787894(OCoLC)759807486(SSID)ssj0000541097(PQKBManifestationID)12253007(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541097(PQKBWorkID)10498367(PQKB)10362803(MiAaPQ)EBC787894(Au-PeEL)EBL787894(CaPaEBR)ebr10504638(CaONFJC)MIL330269(EXLCZ)99255000000005722720110823d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrScotland as science fiction[electronic resource] /[edited by] Caroline McCracken-FlesherLanham, MD Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Groupc20121 online resource (138 p.)Aperçus: Histories Texts CulturesDescription based upon print version of record.1-61148-426-X 1-61148-374-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Scotland's Fantastic Physics: Energy Transformation in MacDonald, Stevenson, Barrie, and Spark; The Other Otherworld: Didactic Fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to J. Leslie Mitchell; Allegory and Cruelty: Gray's Lanark and Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus; Speculative Nationality: "Stands Scotland Where it Did?" in the Culture of Iain M. Banks; Between Enlightenment and the End of History: Ken MacLeod's Engines of Light; The Cosmic (Cosmo)Polis in Naomi Mitchison's Science Fiction NovelsNonviolence, Gender, and Ecology: Margaret Elphinstone's The Incomer and A Sparrow's FlightPast and Future Language: Matthew Fitt and Iain M. Banks; Scottish Poetry as Science Fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid, and Morgan's "A Home in Space"; Brave New Scotland: Science Fiction without Stereotypes in Fitt and Crumey; Alba Newton and Alasdair Gray; Bibliography; Index; About the Editor and ContributorsScots like Iain N. Banks and Ken MacLeod lead in a futuristic tradition, for from MacDonald, Barrie, and Stevenson onwards, Scots have been speculating in ways derived from their unique circumstances: lacking political power, they imagine future spaces and different places-with a twist. Nineteenth-century thermodynamics (theorized in Scotland), Celtic Otherworlds, and a Scotland always on the ""other side"" of history open unusual futures for Mitchison, Spark, Lindsay, Mitchell, MadDiarmid, Morgan, Crumey, Fitt, and Gray.Aperçus: Histories Texts CulturesEnglish literatureScottish authorsHistory and criticismScience fiction, ScottishHistory and criticismLiterature and societyScotlandHistoryNational characteristics, Scottish, in literatureLiterature and historyScotlandScotlandIn literatureElectronic books.English literatureScottish authorsHistory and criticism.Science fiction, ScottishHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistory.National characteristics, Scottish, in literature.Literature and history823/.08762099411McCracken-Flesher Caroline952811MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457420103321Scotland as science fiction2154183UNINA