- Title Pages
- Foreword
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Introduction: Deconstructing The Starships
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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: In the Chinks of the World Machine: Sarah Lefanu on Feminist SF -
10: Consider Her Ways: The Fiction of C.J. Cherryh -
11: Alien Sex: Ellen Datlow’s Overview of the SF Orgasm -
12: The Boys Want to be with the Boys: Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash -
13: Glory Season: David Brin’s Feminist Utopia -
14: Virtual Light: A Shocking Dose of Comfort and Joy from William Gibson -
15: Return to the Age of Wonder: John Barnes’s A Million Open Doors -
16: Winterlong: Elizabeth Hand at the End of the World -
17: Plague of Angels: The Fiction of Sheri Tepper -
18: The Furies: Suzy Charnas Beyond the End of the World -
19: Alien Influences: 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
Aliens in the Fourth Dimension
Aliens in the Fourth Dimension
- Chapter:
- (p.108) 8: Aliens in the Fourth Dimension
- Source:
- Deconstructing the Starships
- Author(s):
Gwyneth Jones
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
‘Aliens in the Fourth Dimension’ was originally read at a conference on Speaking Science Fiction, held at the University of Liverpool in July 1996. It is the last in the ‘Science, Fiction and Reality’ section of the book. The chapter deals with the various models of alien stories found in science fiction, and looks at the ways in which language, gender and morality are treated. Jones makes parallels from alien invasion in science fiction to the world’s history of colonisation, and places focus on the relationship between man and woman within that process of colonising. She concludes by describing her own decisions and techniques used when writing her alien stories, The Aleutian Trilogy.
Keywords: English Literature, Literary Criticism, Science Fiction, Fantasy Writing, 20th Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, Alien Fiction, Colonisation, Feminism, The Aleutian Trilogy
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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: In the Chinks of the World Machine: Sarah Lefanu on Feminist SF -
10: Consider Her Ways: The Fiction of C.J. Cherryh -
11: Alien Sex: Ellen Datlow’s Overview of the SF Orgasm -
12: The Boys Want to be with the Boys: Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash -
13: Glory Season: David Brin’s Feminist Utopia -
14: Virtual Light: A Shocking Dose of Comfort and Joy from William Gibson -
15: Return to the Age of Wonder: John Barnes’s A Million Open Doors -
16: Winterlong: Elizabeth Hand at the End of the World -
17: Plague of Angels: The Fiction of Sheri Tepper -
18: The Furies: Suzy Charnas Beyond the End of the World -
19: Alien Influences: 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
