Extrapolation articles from June 2008

Extrapolation archives from June 2008

Introduction: mundane science fiction, harm and healing the world.(Geoff Ryman )(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... This collection of articles on sf writer Geoff Ryman's fiction initially took shape not unlike a Micky Rooncy-Judy Garland musical. A mutual discovery of common interest (in this case Ryman's work) led to a conversation which went something...

An email conversation with Geoff Ryman.
June 22, 2008... On February 15, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Hiromi Goto wrote: Hello, Geoff. Happy Year of the Rat. I would like to begin our email conversation. I'm hoping that it can be a generative discourse and less a Q & A model of interaction. What I...

Is air Mundane?(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... In 2004, Geoff Ryman proposed the idea of Mundane sf, science fiction with "no FTL, no FTL Communications, no time travel, no aliens in the flesh, no immortality, no telepathy, no parallel universes, no magic wands" ("Take the Third Star");...

History and AIDS in Was and Angels in America.
June 22, 2008... It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other. Geoff Ryman, Was: A Novel I usually say, "Fuck the truth," but mostly, the truth fucks you. Prior Walter, Angels...

"Giving an account of oneself": ethics, alterity, air.(Air by Geoff Ryman)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... "Of Ground, or Air, or Ought" --Emily Dickinson ("After Great Pain") * Despite its own format--the mundane credo and uncluttered, accessible prose--Geoff Ryman's Air (Or, Have Not Have) rides waves of central metaphors, images or...

Antelopes of desire: knowledge, documentation, and love in the novels of Geoff Ryman.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... An information society is defined as one where commerce in information is a characteristic activity. Yet, because this commerce has historically been coupled to advances in information communication technologies, the question of what...

The Pervert's guide to Geoff Ryman: desire, subjectivity and identity in Lust and Was.
June 22, 2008... Lust (n): I. Pleasure, delight.... Liking, friendly inclination to a person. Obs. 2. Desire, appetite, relish or inclination for something... . Obs.... 3. spec, in Biblical and Theological use: Sensuous appetite or desire, considered as...

Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Body Consciences. Sherryl Vint. Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 243 pp. $50 hdbk. * I am proud to have been mentioned in the acknowledgements of this book and also...

Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Turbulent 1970s. Mike Ashley. Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazine from 1970 to 1980. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007. 422 pp. $27.50 pbk. * Mike Ashley's third installment in his series The History...

Worlds Apart: Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Taxonomies of Transgression. Dunja M. Mohr. Worlds Apart: Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias. Jefferson, NC: McFar-Jand & Company, 2005. 312 pp. $39.95 pbk. * In Worlds Apart: Dualism and Transgression in...

Science Fiction and Empire.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Empire as thought experiment. Patricia Kerslake. Science Fiction and Empire. Liverpool: Liverpool university press, 2007. 217 pp. $75 hdbk. "We are all products of the historical imperial project," writes Patricia Kerslake in the...

My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Language of Posthumans. N. Kathcrine Hayles. My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 290 pp. $22 pbk. My Mother Was a Computer is a significant work of scholarship that...

Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Introductory Texts and Criticism in Women's Science Fiction. Justine Larbalestier, ed. Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. 424 pp. $24.95 pbk." Women...