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Nonfiction Title:
Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction • nonfiction by Tom Shippey
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- xi • A Personal Preface • essay by Tom Shippey
- 3 • Coming Out of the Science Fiction Closet • essay by Tom Shippey
- 6 • Learning to Read Science Fiction • (1991) • essay by Tom Shippey
- 24 • Rejecting Gesture Politics • essay by Tom Shippey
- 26 • Literary Gatekeepers and the Fabril Tradition • (2002) • essay by Tom Shippey
- 47 • Getting Away from the Facilior Lectio • essay by Tom Shippey
- 50 • Semiotic Ghosts and Ghostlinesses in the Work of Bruce Sterling • (1993) • essay by Tom Shippey (variant of Semiotic Ghosts and Ghostliness in the Work of Bruce Sterling 1992)
- 67 • Getting Serious with the Fans • essay by Tom Shippey
- 70 • Science Fiction and the Idea of History • (1973) • essay by Tom Shippey
- 85 • Getting to Grips with the Issue of Cultures... • essay by Tom Shippey
- 89 • Cultural Engineering: A Theme in Science Ficton • (1969) • essay by Tom Shippey
- 103 • ...And Not Fudging the Issue! • essay by Tom Shippey
- 106 • People Are Plastic: Jack Vance & the Dilemma of Cultural Relativism • (2000) • essay by Tom Shippey
- 121 • SF Authors Really Mean What They Say • essay by Tom Shippey
- 124 • Alternate Historians: Newt, Kingers, Harry and Me • (1997) • essay by Tom Shippey
- 141 • A Revealing Failure by Critics • essay by Tom Shippey
- 144 • Kingsley Amis's Science Fiction and the Problems of Genre • (2003) • essay by Tom Shippey
- 160 • A Glimpse of Structuralist Possibility • essay by Tom Shippey
- 162 • The Golden Bough and the Incorporations of Magic in Science Fiction • (1977) • essay by Tom Shippey
- 182 • Serious Issues, Serious Traumas, Emotional Depth • essay by Tom Shippey
- 185 • The Magic Art and the Evolution of Words: Ursula Le Guin "Earthsea" Trilogy • (1977) • essay by Tom Shippey
- 207 • A First Encounter with Politics • essay by Tom Shippey
- 209 • The Cold War in Science Fiction, 1940-1960 • (1979) • essay by Tom Shippey
- 229 • Language Corruption, and Rocking the Boat • essay by Tom Shippey
- 233 • Variations on Newspeak: The Open Question of Nineteen Eighty-Four • (1987) • essay by Tom Shippey
- 255 • Just Before the Disaster • essay by Tom Shippey
- 258 • The Fall of America in Science Fiction • (1991) • essay by Tom Shippey
- 274 • Why Politicians, and Producers, Should Read Science Fiction • essay by Tom Shippey
- 277 • The Critique of America in Contemporary Science Fiction • (1994) • essay by Tom Shippey
- 293 • Saying (When Necessary) the Lamentable Word • essay by Tom Shippey
- 296 • Starship Troopers, Galactic Heroes, Mercenary Princes: The Military and its Discontents in Science Fiction • (2000) • essay by Tom Shippey
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