| Description |
xi, 307 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
From semaphors and steamships to servers and spaceships: the saga of globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution / Gary Westfahl -- Going mobile: tradition, technology, and the cultural monad / George Slusser -- Urge et Orbe: a prehistory of the postmodern world city / Howard V. Hendrix -- 2001, or a cyberpalace odyssey: toward the ideographic imagination / Takayuki Tatsumi -- The genealogy of the cyborg in Japanese popular culture / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Hermeneutics and Taiwan science fiction / Wong Kin Yuen -- Is utopia obsolete? Imploding boundaries in Neal Stephenson's The diamond age / N. Katherine Hayles -- Tales of futures passed: the Kipling continuum and other lost worlds of science fiction / Andy Sawyer -- Globalization in Japanese science fiction, 1900 and 1963: The seabed warship and its re-interpretation . Thonmas Schnellbacher -- The limits of "humanity" in comparative perspective: Cordwainer Smith and the Soushenji / Lisa Raphals -- The idea of the Asian in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle / Jake Jakaitis -- Godzilla's travels: the evolution of a globalized gargantuan / Gary Westfahl -- Black secret technology: African technological subjects / Gerald Gaylard -- The teeth of the new cockatoo: mutation and trauma in Greg Egan's Teranesia / Chris Palmer -- When cyberfeminism meets Chinese philosophy: computer, weaving and women / Amy Kit-sze Chan -- Hollywood enters the dragon / Véronique Flambard-Weisbart -- Romeo must die: action and agency in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films / Susanne Rieser and Susanne Lummerding |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-300) and index |
| Subject |
Culture and globalization.
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Cybernetics in literature.
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Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Chan, Amy Kit-sze.
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Westfahl, Gary.
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Wong, Kin-yuen, 1944-
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| LC no. |
2008555470 |
| ISBN |
9622097219 |
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9622097227 (paperback) |
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9789622097223 |
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