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Author:
Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl, author.
Title:
Suicide and contemporary science fiction / Carlos Gutiérrez-Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
xii, 192 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Science fiction--History and criticism.
Suicide in literature.
Science fiction.
Suicide in literature.
Wells, H.G.--(Herbert George),--1866-1946.
Lem, Stanisław,--1921-2006.
Gibson, William,--1948-
Nolan, Christopher--(Christopher Robert),--1970-
Johnson, Rian.
Atwood, Margaret--(Margaret Eleanor),--1939-
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.
Contents:
Living to wonder: Darwin and H.G. Wells' The island of Doctor Moreau -- Stranded contacts: the transformative potential of grief in Stanislaw Lem's Solaris -- Stealing kinship: William Gibson's Neuromancer and artificial intelligence -- Escaping one's self: narcissism and cycles of violence in inception and looper -- Environmental adaptation: creative apocalypse in Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy -- Afterword: Creative self-destruction and 9/11.
ISBN:
1107100402 (hbk.)
9781107100404 (hbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)898206262
LCCN:
2014048589
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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