Provides a collection of new essays that fill a gap in the literature about sex and science fiction. The essays explore the myriad ways in which authors writing in the genre, regardless of format, envision very different beings expressing this most fundamental of human behaviours.
"Science fiction" can be translated into "real unreality." More than a genre like fantasy, which creates entirely new realms of possibility, science fiction constructs its possibilities from what is real, from what is, indeed, possible, or conceivably so. This collection, then, looks to understand and explore the "unreal reality," to note ways in which our culture's continually changing and evolving mores of sex and sexuality are reflected in, dissected by, and deconstructed through the genre of science fiction.
This book is a collection of new essays, with the general objective of filling a gap in the literature about sex and science fiction (although some work has gone before, none of it is recent). The essays herein explore the myriad ways in which authors--regardless of format (print, film, television, etc.)--envision very different beings expressing this most fundamental of human behaviors.
“"Essays are incisive and well-written...recommended for most college libraries"-- Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts ; "This collection of over a dozen essays interrogates how sex and sexuality are reflected in science fiction as changing categories and persistent motifs"-- Reference & Research Book News .”
“Essays are incisive and well-written...recommended for most college libraries”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts; “This collection of over a dozen essays interrogates how sex and sexuality are reflected in science fiction as changing categories and persistent motifs”—Reference & Research Book News.
Sherry Ginn is a retired educator currently living in North Carolina. She has authored books examining female characters on science fiction television series as well as the multiple television worlds of Joss Whedon. Edited collections have examined sex in science fiction, time travel, the apocalypse, and the award-winning series Farscape, Doctor Who, and Fringe. Michael G. Cornelius is a professor of English and director of the Master’s of Humanities program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning novelist and the author or editor of numerous scholarly works.
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