![]() | The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin |
Space-opera heroines, gender-bending aliens, post-apocalyptic pregnancies, changeling children, interplanetary battles of the sexes, and much more: a groundbreaking new collection of classic American science fiction by women from the 1920s to the 1960sSF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the biggest and best survey of the female tradition in American sci ... Number of pages: 551 | Publication Date: 2018-10-09 | ISBN-13: 9781598535808 |
![]() | Galactic Suburbia Ph.D. Lisa Yaszek |
In this groundbreaking cultural history, Lisa Yaszek recovers a lost tradition of women’s science fiction that flourished after 1945. This new kind of science fiction was set in a place called galactic suburbia, a literary frontier that was home to nearly 300 women writers. These authors explored how women’s lives, loves, and work were being tr ... Number of pages: 256 | Publication Date: 2008-01-22 | ISBN-13: 9780814251645 |
![]() | Practicing Science Fiction by Karen Hellekson, Craig B. Jacobsen, Patrick B. Sharp, Lisa Yaszek |
Drawn from the Science Fiction Research Association conference held in Lawrence, Kansas, in 2008, the essays in this volume address intersections among the reading, writing, and teaching of science fiction. Part 1 studies the teaching of SF, placing analytical and pedagogical research next to each other to reveal how SF can be both an object of stu ... Number of pages: 226 | Publication Date: 2010-05-11 | ISBN-13: 9780786447930 |
![]() | Africa SF by Mark Bould, Lisa Yaszek, Malisa Kurtz, Noah Tsika, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Marleen Barr, Patrick B. Sharp, Grace Dillon (Anishinaabe), Lisa Dowdall, Neil Easterbrook, De Witt Douglas Kilgore, John Rieder, Gerry Canavan |
A collection of scholarly articles, interviews, reviews related to African and Africa diasporic genre fiction, including analysis and discussion of work by Mohammed Dib, Lauren Buekes, Nnedi Okorafor, Sun Ra, Marvel Comics T'Challa, and others. ... Number of pages: 325 | Publication Date: 2013-10-16 | ISBN-13: 9781929512362 |
![]() | Utopian and Science Fiction by Women |
This collection speaks to common themes and strategies in women's writing about their different worlds, from Margaret Cavendish's seventeenth-century Blazing World of the North Pole to the "men-less" islands of the French writer Scudery to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century utopias of Shelley and Gaskell, and science fiction pulps, finishing wi ... Number of pages: 280 | Publication Date: 1994-07-01 | ISBN-13: 9780815626206 |
![]() | James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction by Randall Frakes, Brooks Peck, Sidney Perkowitz, Matt Singer, Gary Wolfe, Lisa Yaszek |
The perfect companion to AMC’s six-part television series James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction, this unique book explores the history and evolution of the genre with contributions from the filmmakers who have helped bring it to lifeFor the show, James Cameron personally interviewed six of the biggest names in science fiction filmmaking†... Number of pages: 224 | Publication Date: 2018-05-15 | ISBN-13: 9781683834977 |
![]() | The Self Wired (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) Lisa Yaszek |
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. ... Number of pages: 220 | Publication Date: 2014-01-16 | ISBN-13: 9780415866965 |