LEADER 03983nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910785293003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-70738-8 010 $a9786612707384 010 $a988-220-312-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000039450 035 $a(EBL)677183 035 $a(OCoLC)650586912 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000431466 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11293758 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431466 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10475426 035 $a(PQKB)11028586 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse7449 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL677183 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10388015 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL270738 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC677183 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000039450 100 $a20080311d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aWorld weavers$b[electronic resource] $eglobalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution /$fedited by Wong Kin Yuen, Gary Westfahl and Amy Kit-sze Chan 210 $aHong Kong $cHong Kong University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a962-209-722-7 311 $a962-209-721-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [287]-300) and index. 327 $aFrom semaphors and steamships to servers and spaceships: the saga of globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution / Gary Westfahl -- Going mobile: tradition, technology, and the cultural monad / George Slusser -- Urge et Orbe: a prehistory of the postmodern world city / Howard V. Hendrix -- 2001, or a cyberpalace odyssey: toward the ideographic imagination / Takayuki Tatsumi -- The genealogy of the cyborg in Japanese popular culture / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Hermeneutics and Taiwan science fiction / Wong Kin Yuen -- Is utopia obsolete? Imploding boundaries in Neal Stephenson's The diamond age / N. Katherine Hayles -- Tales of futures passed: the Kipling continuum and other lost worlds of science fiction / Andy Sawyer -- Globalization in Japanese science fiction, 1900 and 1963: The seabed warship and its re-interpretation . Thonmas Schnellbacher -- The limits of "humanity" in comparative perspective: Cordwainer Smith and the Soushenji / Lisa Raphals -- The idea of the Asian in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle / Jake Jakaitis -- Godzilla's travels: the evolution of a globalized gargantuan / Gary Westfahl -- Black secret technology: African technological subjects / Gerald Gaylard -- The teeth of the new cockatoo: mutation and trauma in Greg Egan's Teranesia / Chris Palmer -- When cyberfeminism meets Chinese philosophy: computer, weaving and women / Amy Kit-sze Chan -- Hollywood enters the dragon / Ve?ronique Flambard-Weisbart -- Romeo must die: action and agency in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films / Susanne Rieser and Susanne Lummerding. 330 $aWorld Weavers is the first ever study on the relationship between globalization and science fiction. Scientific innovations provide citizens of different nations with a unique common ground and the means to establish new connections with distant lands. This study attempts to investigate how our world has grown more and more interconnected not only due to technological advances, but also to a shared interest in those advances and to what they might lead to in the future. 606 $aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCybernetics in literature 615 0$aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCybernetics in literature. 701 $aWong$b Kin-yuen$f1944-$01579186 701 $aWestfahl$b Gary$0565146 701 $aChan$b Amy Kit-sze$01579187 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785293003321 996 $aWorld weavers$93859039 997 $aUNINA