Science Fantasy

Critical Explorations in Fiction and Film

Edited by Cenk Tan; Elçīn Parçaoğlu and Nazan Yıldız Çīçekçī - Contributions by Keisha Allan; Sotirios Bampatzimopoulos; Nazan Yıldız Çīçekçī; Ercan Gürova; Karol Jaroszewski; Gül Varlı Karaarslan; Elçīn Parçaoğlu; Michael Arthur Soares; Cenk Tan; Defne Ersīn Tutan and Sarah Young

Chasing Aristotle’s “probable impossibilities”, Science Fantasy: Critical Explorations in Fiction and Film scrutinizes science fantasy, a hybrid genre that draws from both science fiction and fantasy. It delves into how science fantasy serves as a medium to shape the present and build a better future through memories and explores uncharted territories where science and imagination intersect. The eleven chapter of this volume challenge preconceptions and invites contemplation on the harmonious interplay between science fiction and the fantastical.

Lexington Books

Pages: 188 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-66692-636-1 • Hardback • July 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

978-1-66692-637-8 • eBook • July 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literary Criticism / Modern / General, Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General

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Critical Explorations in Fiction and Film

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Summary

Chasing Aristotle’s “probable impossibilities”, Science Fantasy: Critical Explorations in Fiction and Film scrutinizes science fantasy, a hybrid genre that draws from both science fiction and fantasy. It delves into how science fantasy serves as a medium to shape the present and build a better future through memories and explores uncharted territories where science and imagination intersect. The eleven chapter of this volume challenge preconceptions and invites contemplation on the harmonious interplay between science fiction and the fantastical.

Details

Lexington Books

Pages: 188 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-66692-636-1 • Hardback • July 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

978-1-66692-637-8 • eBook • July 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literary Criticism / Modern / General, Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General

Author

Cenk Tan is associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Pamukkale University, Turkey.
Elçīn Parçaoğlu is assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Pamukkale University, Turkey.
Nazan Yıldız Çiçekçī is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey.

Table of Contents

Editors’ Foreword: Cenk Tan, Elçīn Parçaoğlu and Nazan Yıldız Çīçekçī
Fantasy and Science Fiction: “A Rationalized Fantasy”, Nazan Yıldız Çīçekçī
Chapter One: Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End: A Critique of Free Will, Determinism and Predestination, Cenk Tan
Chapter Two: Science Undertakes the Task: An Analysis of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children through Science Fantasy, Elçīn Parçaoğlu
Chapter Three: Andre Norton’s Androgynous Equality and Subverting Gender Roles and
Hue of Witchcraft in Witch World, Nazan Yıldız Çīçekçī
Chapter Four: In the Shadow of the Past and of the Source Text: I, Frankenstein as Adaptation and Americanization, Defne Ersīn Tutan
Chapter Five: From Mighty Warrior to Goofy Dad: Exploring Masculinities in the Thor Franchise, Sotirios Bampatzimopoulos
Chapter Six: Mars and the Martians as Others in Philip K. Dick’s Story and its Film Adaptation, Ercan Gürova
Chapter Seven: Reimagining Marronage in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber, Keisha Allan
Chapter Eight: Mothering in the Multiverse: Representations of Shifting Maternal Identities in Popular Science Fiction Films, Sarah Young
Chapter Nine: The Science Fantasy of Michael Moorcock, Karol Jaroszewski
Chapter Ten: Conscious Counter-Reality: Lexical Cohesion and Anti-Language in Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Michael Arthur Soares
Chapter Eleven: Exploring Feminist Utopia: A Neo-Realist Analysis of The Feminist Utopia Project, Gül Varlı Karaarslan
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Reviews

Scholarly attention to science fantasy is long overdue. The hybrid genre can provide insights into both fantasy and science fiction as well as offering its own perspectives on gender, power, perception, and, as Douglas Adams would suggest, the meaning of life. The editors of this volume have gathered an important and engaging set of essays on key figures in the development of science fantasy literature, like Andre Norton and Michael Moorcock, and on its emergence into forms ranging from feminist utopias to superhero movies.

— Brian Attebery, Idaho State University and author of Fantasy: How It Works

Occupying the contested space or ‘no man's land’ between the ostensibly conceptual rigor of science fiction and the supernatural extravagance of fantasy, ‘science fantasy’ establishes itself as a unique genre even as it calls into question the basic differentiae specificae used to define these others. Science Fantasy: Critical Explorations in Fiction and Film delivers a fascination collection of essays that range across numerous texts, authors, and media, offering a survey of the rich terrain of science fantasy over the past century.

— Robert T. Tally Jr., Texas State University

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