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Nonfiction Title:
Biotechnological and Medical Themes in Science Fiction • nonfiction by Domna Pastourmatzi
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- 11 • Science Fiction in the Biotech Age • essay by Domna Pastourmatzi
- 29 • Internalizing the Final Frontier • essay by Candas Jane Dorsey
- 39 • I Want to Be Your Sex Symbol: Exploring Objectification, Cultural Definition and the Manipulation of Desire via the Metaphor of Bio-engineering in Resisting Adonis • essay by Timothy J. Anderson
- 49 • The Brain Plague: Brains and Biology in Science Fiction • essay by Joan Slonczewski [as by Joan L. Slonczewski]
- 57 • Science Fiction Needs the Dreams That Science Is Made Of • essay by Athena Andreadis
- 68 • What's the Hurry? How Biotechnological Advances Can Make Interstellar Civilization Possible Without Fantasy Space Drives • essay by G. David Nordley [as by Gerald David Nordley]
- 87 • Transplant Medicine and Transformative Narrative, or Is Science Fiction "Rubbish"? • essay by Susan M. Squier
- 111 • Bio-Slavery or The cannibalistic Quest for Longevity: Harvesting for Human Organs in Manjula's Padmanbhan's Futuristic Drama • essay by Zoe Detsi-Diamanti
- 131 • Science Fiction Parables of Mutation and Cloning as/and Cognition • essay by Darko Suvin
- 152 • Bone of my Bones, Flesh of my Flesh: A Brief History of the Clone in Science Fiction • essay by Janeen Webb
- 165 • Cloning Out of Love: Jacques Testart's Eve ou la répétition • essay by Domna Pastourmatzi
- 186 • "The Malediction of the Clones"?: Huxley, Mitchison, Haldane • essay by Maria Aline Ferreira
- 208 • "None of Woman Born": Colonizing the Womb from Frankenstein's Mother to Naomi Mitchison's Clone Mums • essay by Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou
- 225 • The Questioning of Cultural Norms in X-Men (2000) • essay by Monika Messner
- 232 • Fading Bodies: The Invisible in Science Fiction • essay by Claudia Schwarz
- 243 • "Prophecies are Rugged and Dirty:" Algeny as Metaphor in Cronenberg's Cinematic Vision of the Future • essay by Michalis Kokonis
- 289 • A Terrible Beauty: David Zindell and the Trans-human Condition • essay by Andrew Enstice
- 299 • Quaker Ethos as Science Praxis in Joan L. Slonczewski A Door Into Ocean • essay by Edward F. Higgins
- 314 • Loving Insects Can Be Dangerous: Assessing the Cost of Life in Octavia Estelle Butler's Novella "Bloodchild" (1984) • essay by Brigitte Scheer-Schäzler
- 323 • Biotech Bodies, Identity and Power in Works by Rebecca Ore, Pat Cadigan, Greg Egan, and Greg Bear • essay by Elisabeth Kraus
- 335 • Beyond the Frankenscientist: Biotech and Biomedical Themes in Recent Australian Science Fiction • essay by Russell Blackford
- 351 • "Tomorrow is wet and squishy": Biotechnological Comedy Gone Horror in Paul Di Filippo's Ribofunk • essay by Pawel Frelik
- 361 • How Is Genetic Engineering a Sign and a Cause of the Deterioration of Human Nature? Dick's Answer in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? • essay by William Schultz
- 371 • Criminal Biology: Genetic Crime Thrillers and the Future of Social Control • essay by Neil Gerlach
- 397 • Scientific, Ethical and Political Ramifications of Humankind's Biological Diversification as Extrapolated in Contemporary Anglophone Science Fiction • essay by Spyros A. Vretos [as by Spyros Vretos]
- 406 • "Wishes of Man": Exploring Problems of Identity in Times of Change, as Reflected in Science Fiction Drawing upon Themes of Biotechnology • essay by Nerina Kioseoglou
- 413 • Genetic Manipulation: Concerns and Hopes in Diamantis Florakis's Ta Gonidia tis Agiotitas • essay by Ioannis Vassiliadis
- 423 • Hellenic Children's Science Fiction: Biotechnological and Biomedical Findings in Kira Sinou's Texts • essay by Georgios D. Papantonakis
- 438 • Science Fiction in the World of Contemporary Visual Arts: The European Science Fiction Comics Culture • essay by Evi D. Sampanikou
- 474 • "Remember the Future": The Emergence of a "New" Terminal Identity and Orlan's Surgical Body Art • essay by Tatiana Rapatzikou
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