Gothic Science Fiction

1980-2010

Edited by Sara Wasson and Emily Alder

Gothic Science Fiction
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Edited by Sara Wasson and Emily Alder

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219 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2011
Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies
Cloth $95.00 ISBN: 9781846317071 Published February 2012 For sale in North America only
Gothic fiction’s focus on the irrational and supernatural would seem to conflict with science fiction’s rational foundations. However, as this novel collection demonstrates, the two categories often intersect in rich and revealing ways. Analyzing a range of works—including literature, film, graphic novels, and trading card games—from the past three decades through the lens of this hybrid genre, this volume examines their engagement with the era’s dramatic changes in communication technology, medical science, and personal and global politics. 
Bernice Murphy, Trinity College Dublin
“It’s about time that there was a publication such as this, which explores this relationship between the two genres—and the often hybrid nature of that relationship—in a manner that is timely, relevant, and generally very interesting indeed.”
A. Castaldo | Choice
“Science fiction and gothic fiction appear at first to be incompatible, if not actual opposites, but with this collection, Wasson and Alder show that there is a strong strain of the gothic in many of the most interesting science fiction texts of the past three decades. Covering fiction, movies, graphic novels, and even card games, the contributors explore how the two approaches to the unknown inform and enrich each other….the scholarship and understanding of the field are impeccable. Summing Up: Highly recommended.”
Contents

Acknowledgements

List of illustrations

Foreword

            Adam Roberts

Notes on contributors

 

Introduction

            Sara Wasson and Emily Alder

 

Part I: Redefining Genres

1          In the Zone: Topologies of Genre Weirdness

            Roger Luckhurst

2          Zombie Death Drive: Between Gothic and Science Fiction

            Fred Botting

 

Part II: Biopower and Capital

3          ‘Death is Irrelevant’: Gothic Science Fiction and the Biopolitics of Empire

            Aris Mousoutzanis

4          ‘A Butcher’s Shop where the Meat Still Moved’: Gothic Doubles, Organ Harvesting and Human Cloning

Sara Wasson

5          Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos, or the Pleasures of Impurity

            Laurence Davies

6          Infected with Life: Neo-supernaturalism and the Gothic Zombie

            Gwyneth Peaty

7          Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap Cycle

            Emily Alder

 

Part III: Gender and Genre

8          The Superheated, Superdense Prose of David Conway: Gender and Subjectivity beyond The Starry Wisdom

            Mark P. Williams

9          Spatialized Ontologies: Toni Morrison’s Science Fiction Traces in Gothic Spaces

            Jerrilyn McGregory

10        The Gothic Punk Milieu in Popular Narrative Fictions

            Nickianne Moody

11        Gothic Science Fiction in the Steampunk Graphic Novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

            Laura Hilton

 

Index

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