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    • Publisher:
      Liverpool University Press
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      September 2010
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      9781846315015
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.5949/UPO9781846313882
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      Literature, English Literature after 1945, English Literature 1900-1945
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      Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies
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    Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious authority can declare lesbians antihuman while some nations legalise same-sex marriage and are becoming increasingly tolerant of a variety of non-normative sexualities, it is hardly surprising that science fiction, in turn, takes up the task of imagining a diverse range of queer and not-so-queer futures. The essays in Queer Universes investigate both contemporary and historical practices of representing sexualities and genders in science fiction literature. Queer Universes opens with Wendy Pearson’s award-winning essay on reading sf queerly and goes on to include discussions about ‘sextrapolation’ in New Wave science fiction, ‘stray penetration’ in William Gibson’s cyberpunk fiction, the queering of nature in ecofeminist science fiction, and the radical challenges posed to conventional science fiction in the work of important writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Joanna Russ. In addition, Queer Universes offers an interview with Nalo Hopkinson and a conversation about queer lives and queer fictions by authors Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge.

    Reviews

    Timely, smart, and innovative, this vital collection ensures that our conception of sf is fuller and healthier.

    Source: Science Fiction Studies, vol.36

    Science Fiction and Empire is thought-provoking and insightful, ... the kind of large-scale postcolonial work that sf has needed for quite some time.

    Source: Science Fiction Studies, vol.45

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