Speaking Science Fiction : Dialogues and Interpretations

Speaking Science Fiction: Introduction -Brian W. Aldiss Who Speaks Science Fiction? -Andy Sawyer Science Fiction Dialogues -David Seed Speaking of Homeplace, Speaking from Someplace -Candas Jane Dorsey Speaking Science Fiction - Out of Anxiety? -Josef Nesvadba Science Fiction as Language: Postmodernism and Mainstream: Some Reflections -Jose Manuel Mota 'Fantastic Dialogues': Critical Stories about Feminism and Science Fiction -Helen Merrick Vicissitudes of the Voice, Speaking Science Fiction -Roger Luckhurst 'A Language of the Future': Discursive Constructions of the Subject inA Clockwork OrangeandRandom Acts of Senseless Violence-Veronica Hollinger Speaking the Body: The Embodiment of 'Feminist' Cyberpunk -Bronwen Calvert and Sue Walsh Bodies that Speak Science Fiction: Stelarc - Performance Artist 'Becoming Posthuman' -Ross Farnell Science Fiction and the Gender of Knowledge -Brian Attebery Corporatism and the Corporate Ethos in Robert Heinlein's 'The Roads Must Roll' -Farah Mendlesohn Convention and Displacement: Narrator, Narratee, and Virtual Reader in Science Fiction -Daniele Chatelain and George Slusser Aphasia and Mother Tongue: Themes of Language Creation and Silence in Women's Science Fiction -Nickianne Moody 'My Particular Virus': (Re-)Reading Jack Womack's Dryco Chronicles -Andrew M. Butler Aliens in the Fourth Dimension -Gwyneth Jones Freefall in Inner Space: From Crash to Crash Technology -Simon Sellars Notes on Contributors Index