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Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures |
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Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Scotland's Fantastic Physics: Energy Transformation in MacDonald, Stevenson, Barrie, and Spark -- The Other Otherworld: Didactic Fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to
J. Leslie Mitchell -- Allegory and Cruelty: Gray's Lanark and Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus -- Speculative Nationality: "Stands Scotland Where it Did?" in the Culture of Iain M. Banks -- Between Enlightenment and the End of History: Ken MacLeod's Engines of Light -- The Cosmic (Cosmo)Polis in Naomi Mitchison's Science Fiction Novels -- Nonviolence, Gender, and Ecology: Margaret Elphinstone's The Incomer and A Sparrow's Flight -- Past and Future Language:
Matthew Fitt and Iain M. Banks -- Scottish Poetry as Science Fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid, and Morgan's "A Home in Space" -- Brave New Scotland: Science Fiction without Stereotypes in Fitt and Crumey -- Alba Newton and Alasdair Gray -- Bibliography -- About the Editor and Contributors |
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Scots like Iain N. Banks and Ken MacLeod lead in a futuristic tradition, for from MacDonald, Barrie, and Stevenson onwards, Scots have been speculating in ways derived from their unique circumstances: lacking political power, they imagine future spaces and different places-with a twist. Nineteenth-century thermodynamics (theorized in Scotland), Celtic Otherworlds, and a Scotland always on the "other side" of history open unusual futures for Mitchison, Spark, Lindsay, Mitchell, MadDiarmid, Morgan, Crumey, Fitt, and Gray |
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries |
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Print version: McCracken-Flesher, Caroline Scotland as Science Fiction
Cranbury : Bucknell University Press,c2011 9781611483741
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Science fiction, Scottish - History and criticism
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Corbett, John
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Craig, Cairns
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Duncan, Ian
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Garrison, John
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Harrison, Lisa
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McClure, J Derrick
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Miller, Gavin
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Phipps, Alison
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Riach, Alan
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