Queer Universes ：Sexualities in Science Fiction ( Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies )

Publication subTitle ：Sexualities in Science Fiction

Publication series ：Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies

Author： Wendy Gay Pearson; Veronica Hollinger; Joan Gordon

Publisher： Liverpool University Press‎

Publication year： 2008

E-ISBN: 9781781388174

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781846311352

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781846311352

Subject： I106.4 Novels

Language： ENG

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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. Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Queer Universes - Wendy Gay Pearson, Veronica Hollinger, and Joan Gordon Part I: Queering the Scene Alien Cryptographies: The View from Queer - Wendy Gay Pearson War Machine, Time Machine - Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge Part II: Un/Doing History Sextrapolation in New Wave Science Fiction - Rob Latham Towards a Queer Genealogy of SF - Wendy Gay Pearson Sexuality and the Statistical Imaginary in Samuel R. Delany’s Trouble on Triton - Guy Davidson Stray Penetration and Heteronormative Systems Crash: Queering Gibson - Graham J. Murphy Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Queer Universes - Wendy Gay Pearson, Veronica Hollinger, and Joan Gordon Part I: Queering the Scene Alien Cryptographies: The View from Queer - Wendy Gay Pearson War Machine, Time Machine - Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge Part II: Un/Doing History Sextrapolation in New Wave Science Fiction - Rob Latham Towards a Queer Genealogy of SF - Wendy Gay Pearson Sexuality and the Statistical Imaginary in Samuel R. Delany’s Trouble on Triton - Guy Davidson Stray Penetration and Heteronormative Systems Crash: Queering Gibson - Graham J. Murphy