03267nam 2200589Ia 450 991082515820332120200520144314.01-281-29472-197866112947241-84714-321-0(CKB)1000000000409565(EBL)436089(OCoLC)290572100(SSID)ssj0000194372(PQKBManifestationID)11174823(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194372(PQKBWorkID)10246433(PQKB)11592267(MiAaPQ)EBC436089(EXLCZ)99100000000040956520010425d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLost in space geographies of science fiction /edited by Rob Kitchin and James Kneale1st ed.London ;New York Continuum20021 online resource (224 p.)Continuum CollectionDescription based upon print version of record.0-8264-7920-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-208) and index.Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Lost in space; 2 The way it wasn't: alternative histories, contingent geographies; 3 Geography's conquest of history in The Diamond Age; 4 Space, technology and Neal Stephensbn's science fiction; 5 Geographies of power and social relations in Marge Piercy's He, She and It; 6 The subjectivity of the near future: geographical imaginings in the work of J. G. Ballard; 7 Tuning the self: city space and SF horror movies; 8 Science fiction and cinema: the hysterical materialism of pataphysical space9 An invention without a future, a solution without a problem: motor pirates, time machines and drunkenness on the screen10 What we can say about nature: familiar geographies, science fiction and popular physics; 11 Murray Bookchin on Mars! The production of nature in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy; 12 In the belly of the monster: Frankenstein, food, factishes and fiction; References; IndexScience fiction - one of the most popular literary, cinematic and televisual genres - has received increasing academic attention in recent years. For many theorists science fiction opens up a space in which the here-and-now can be made strange or remade; where virtual reality and cyborg are no longer gimmicks or predictions, but new spaces and subjects.Lost in space brings together an international collection of authors to explore the diverse geographies of spaceexploring imagination, nature, scale, geopolitics, modernity, time, identity, the body, power relations and the representation of spaContinuum CollectionScience fictionHistory and criticismSpace and time in literatureScience fictionHistory and criticism.Space and time in literature.809.3/8762/09384Kitchin Rob713612Kneale James1721456MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825158203321Lost in Space4121109UNINA