Friday, October 26, 2012

SF Volume Upcoming from Sense


Series: Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genres

Sense Publishers

Challenging Genres: Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction


P. L. Thomas, Editor


In-press late summer 2013

The draft Table of Contents includes:


Introduction, P. L. Thomas 

Chapter One: “A Case for SF and Speculative Fiction: A Brief History,” P. L. Thomas 

Chapter Two: “SF and Speculative Novels,” Michael Svec and Mike Winiski 

Chapter Three: “SF Novels and Sociological Experimentation,” Aaron Passell

Chapter Four: “SF and Speculative Short Fiction,” Jennifer Johnson 

Chapter Five: "Reading Alien Suns: Using the SF Film to Teach a Political Literacy of Possibility," John Hoben

Chapter Six: "Singularity, Cyborgs, Drones, Replicants and Avatars: Coming to Terms with the Digital Self," Leila E. VillaverdeRoymieco A. Carter

Chapter Seven: "Troubling Notions of Reality in Caprica," Erin B. Dell

Chapter Eight: “'I Try to Remember Who I Am and Who I Am Not': The Subjugation of Nature and Women in The Hunger Games,” Sean Connors 

Chapter Nine: "Visual-Verbal Wastelands: Sweet Tooth, Ideology and Dystopian Comics," Sean Connors

Chapter Ten: “The Enduring Power of SF, Speculative and Dystopian Fiction,” P. L. Thomas 


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