Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-204) and index.
Contents:
Female state : science fiction alternatives to the patriarchy : Sheri Tepper's The gate to women's country and Orson Scott Card's Homecoming series / Lorna Jowett. Science fiction : metaphor, myth or prophecy? / Patrick Parrinder -- Modernity as a project and as self-criticism : the historical dialogue between science fiction and utopia / Gregory Paschalidis -- 'Dare to struggle, dare to win' : on science fiction, totality and agency in the 1990s / Tom Moylan -- Monsters of botany and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Carlos Seligo -- Contending forces : racial and sexual narratives in Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren / Jeffrey A. Tucker -- Death of the author and the power of addiction in Naked lunch and Blade runner / Gloria Pastorino -- Informatic Jeremiad : the virtual frontier and US cyberculture / Salvatore Proietti -- Doomsday looms : Gudrun Pausewang's anti-nuclear novels / Susan Tebbutt -- In-between subjects : C.L. Moore's 'No woman born' / Raffaella Baccolini -- (Re)productive fictions : reproduction, embodiment and feminist science in Marge Piercy's science fiction / Joan Haran -- Female state : science fiction alternatives to the patriarchy : Sheri Tepper's The gate to women's country and Orson Scott Card's Homecoming series / Lorna Jowett.
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