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9780853237839

Deconstructing the Starships Science, Fiction and Reality

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  • ISBN13:

    9780853237839

  • ISBN10:

    0853237832

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-01-11
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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Summary

The subject matter of this collection is varied, but displays Jones' stance as a practising SF writer and a feminist; the writing is characterised by both an incisive engagement with the texts and a refusal to dress that engagement in jargon. This very readable book provides insight into the work of one of our most interesting writers and presents strong - sometimes even subversive - views of a range of modern SF and fantasy.

Author Biography


Gwyneth Jones, born in Manchester UK, 14th February 1952, is the author of many novels for teenagers, fantasy, horror and thrillers, using the name Ann Halam, and several highly regarded sf and fantasy novels for adults. Her critical essays and reviews are collected in Deconstructing The Starships, 1999 and Imagination/Space 2009. Among other honours she's won two World Fantasy awards, the Children of the Night award, the Philip K Dick award, the BSFA award and the Pilgrim award for Science Fiction criticism. Several of her novels have been nominated for the Arthur C Clarke award, the latest being Spirit, 2009; she won the award for Bold As Love in 2002.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
I All Science is Description
Introduction
3(6)
Getting Rid of the Brand Names
9(13)
The Lady and the Scientists
22(13)
Dreamer: An Exercise in Extrapolation 1989--2019
35(25)
My Crazy Uncles: C.S. Lewis and Tolkien as Writers for Children
60(17)
II Science, Fiction and Reality
Fools: The Neuroscience of Cyberspace
77(14)
Trouble (Living in the Machine)
91(8)
Sex: The Brains of Female Hyena Twins
99(9)
Aliens in the Fourth Dimension
108(15)
III The Reviews
In the Chinks of the World Machine: Sarah Lefanu on Feminist SF
123(8)
Consider Her Ways: The Fiction of C.J. Cherryh
131(10)
Alien Sex: Ellen Datlow's Overview of the SF Orgasm
141(5)
The Boys Want to be with the Boys: Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
146(7)
Glory Season: David Brin's Feminist Utopia
153(3)
Virtual Light: A Shocking Dose of Comfort and Joy from William Gibson
156(5)
Return to the Age of Wonder: John Barnes's A Million Open Doors
161(7)
Winterlong: Elizabeth Hand at the End of the World
168(10)
Plague of Angels: The Fiction of Sheri Tepper
178(6)
The Furies: Suzy Charnas Beyond the End of the World
184(8)
Alien Influences: Kristine Kathryn Rusch in the Dark
192(7)
No Man's Land: Feminised Landscapes in the Utopian Fiction of Ursula Le Guin
199(10)
Notes 209(4)
Bibliography 213(2)
Acknowledgements 215(2)
Index 217

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