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'I began writing about power because I had so little', Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler's life as an African American woman - an alien in American society and among science fiction writers - informed the powerful works that earned her an ardent readership and acclaim both inside and outside science fiction. Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler's career. Drawing on her personal papers, he tracks the false starts, abandoned drafts, tireless rewrites, and real-life obstacles that fed her frustrations and launched her triumphs.

American fiction --- Science fiction, American --- American literature --- History and criticism --- African American authors&delete& --- Butler, Octavia E. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- African American authors

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"Global Weirding" was a term invented in 2010 that tried to sidestep post-truth assumptions about "global warming," the kind of thing that got lunatic politicians carrying snowballs into senate hearings. Surely everyone could agree that the weather has got seriously weirder--unpredictable, chaotic, menacing. Gerry Canavan and Andrew Hageman have commissioned a bunch of smart people to cross-fertilize this idea with that other crucial weirdness of the 21st century, the increasing cultural centrality of "weird fiction," once an overlooked, interstitial mode of pulp writing but now ever more visible in literature and visual culture. We hear from China Miéville and Jeff VanderMeer, the transatlantic leaders of the New Weird, and Timothy Morton, leading ecocritic just now turning to reflect upon the resources of the weird. A vital and timely intervention into unfathomably strange times." -- Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck, University of London

Global warming --- Science fiction --- Science fiction. --- Speculative fiction. --- In literature. --- History and criticism.

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Returning to print for the first time since the 1980s, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Darko Suvin's paradigm-setting definition of SF as «the literature of cognitive estrangement» established a robust theory of the genre that continues to spark fierce debate, as well as inspiring myriad intellectual descendants and disciples. Suvin's centuries-spanning history of the genre links SF to a long tradition of utopian and satirical literatures crying out for a better world than this one, showing how SF and the imagination of utopia are now forever intertwined. In addition to the 1979 text of the book, this edition contains three additional essays from Suvin that update, expand and reconsider the terms of his original intervention, as well as a new introduction and preface that situate the book in the context of the decades of SF studies that have followed in its wake.

Science fiction --- Literary form --- History and criticism

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Essays exploring the relationship between environmental disaster and visions of apocalypse through the lens of science fiction

Environmentalism in literature. --- Ecology in literature. --- Ecofiction --- Science fiction --- Eco-fiction --- Environmental fiction --- Green fiction --- Nature fiction --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Ecology in literature --- Environmentalism in literature --- History and criticism --- Science fiction - History and criticism --- Ecofiction - History and criticism

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The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.

Science fiction --- History and criticism.