- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Introduction: Deconstructing The Starships*
- 1: Getting Rid of the Brand Names*
- 2: The Lady and the Scientists*
- 3: Dreamer: An Exercise in Extrapolation 1989–2019*
- 4: My Crazy Uncles: C.S. Lewis and Tolkien as Writers for Children*
- 5: Fools: The Neuroscience of Cyberspace*
- 6: Trouble (Living in the Machine)*
- 7: Sex: The Brains of Female Hyena Twins*
- 8: Aliens in the Fourth Dimension
- 9: <i>In the Chinks of the World Machine</i>: Sarah Lefanu on Feminist SF
- 10: Consider Her Ways: The Fiction of C.J. Cherryh
- 11: <i>Alien Sex</i>: Ellen Datlow’s Overview of the SF Orgasm
- 12: The Boys Want to be with the Boys: Neal Stephenson’s <i>Snow Crash</i>
- 13: <i>Glory Season</i>: David Brin’s Feminist Utopia
- 14: <i>Virtual Light</i>: A Shocking Dose of Comfort and Joy from William Gibson
- 15: Return to the Age of Wonder: John Barnes’s <i>A Million Open Doors</i>
- 16: <i>Winterlong</i>: Elizabeth Hand at the End of the World
- 17: <i>Plague of Angels</i>: The Fiction of Sheri Tepper
- 18: The Furies: Suzy Charnas <i>Beyond the End of the World</i>
- 19: <i>Alien Influences</i>: Kristine Kathryn Rusch in the Dark
- 20: No Man’s Land: Feminised Landscapes in the Utopian Fiction of Ursula Le Guin
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
Introduction: Deconstructing The Starships
Introduction: Deconstructing The Starships
- Chapter:
- (p.3) Introduction: Deconstructing The Starships*
- Source:
- Deconstructing the Starships
- Author(s):
Gwyneth Jones
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
‘Deconstructing The Starships’ references a speech originally given at the June 1988 presentation of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The speech discusses science fiction’s penetration into popular culture and its inclusion in 20th century mainstream fiction. It also analyses the structure and methodology of a science fiction novel, looking at the characterisation, narrative and literary conventions used in order to develop an understanding of the requirements of a science fiction text. The chapter references Star Wars and Star Trek throughout, and uses the two franchises to associate the Starship Enterprise with US Navy nuclear submarines in the Cold War, thus mirroring science fiction with reality.
Keywords: English Literature, Literary Criticism, Science Fiction, Fantasy Writing, 20th Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, Star Wars, Star Trek, The Cold War
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Introduction: Deconstructing The Starships*
- 1: Getting Rid of the Brand Names*
- 2: The Lady and the Scientists*
- 3: Dreamer: An Exercise in Extrapolation 1989–2019*
- 4: My Crazy Uncles: C.S. Lewis and Tolkien as Writers for Children*
- 5: Fools: The Neuroscience of Cyberspace*
- 6: Trouble (Living in the Machine)*
- 7: Sex: The Brains of Female Hyena Twins*
- 8: Aliens in the Fourth Dimension
- 9: <i>In the Chinks of the World Machine</i>: Sarah Lefanu on Feminist SF
- 10: Consider Her Ways: The Fiction of C.J. Cherryh
- 11: <i>Alien Sex</i>: Ellen Datlow’s Overview of the SF Orgasm
- 12: The Boys Want to be with the Boys: Neal Stephenson’s <i>Snow Crash</i>
- 13: <i>Glory Season</i>: David Brin’s Feminist Utopia
- 14: <i>Virtual Light</i>: A Shocking Dose of Comfort and Joy from William Gibson
- 15: Return to the Age of Wonder: John Barnes’s <i>A Million Open Doors</i>
- 16: <i>Winterlong</i>: Elizabeth Hand at the End of the World
- 17: <i>Plague of Angels</i>: The Fiction of Sheri Tepper
- 18: The Furies: Suzy Charnas <i>Beyond the End of the World</i>
- 19: <i>Alien Influences</i>: Kristine Kathryn Rusch in the Dark
- 20: No Man’s Land: Feminised Landscapes in the Utopian Fiction of Ursula Le Guin
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
