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Media type:
Book
Title:
Practicing science fiction
:
critical essays on writing, reading and teaching the genre
Contains:
Preface
/ Karen Hellekson
Introduction: teaching with science fiction
/ Craig B. Jacobsen
Grokking rhetoric through science fiction: a practical examination of course construction
/ Jen Gunnels
Incorporating science fiction into a scientific rhetoric course
/ Michael J. Klein
Revealing critical theory's real-life potential to our students, the digital nomads
/ Jason W. Ellis
Introduction: reading and writing SF
/ Patrick B. Sharp
Reading/writing Martians: seeing techne and poiesis in The war of the worlds
/ Charles Harding
The creation of Heinlein's "solution unsatisfactory"
/ Ed Wysocki
Entropy, entertainment, and creative energy in Ben Bova
/ Donald M. Hassler
Introduction: media and science fiction
/ Karen Hellekson
Investigating the postmodern memory crisis on the small screen
/ Susan A. George
Text's resistance to being interpreted: unconventional relationship between text and reader in Watchmen
/ Ho-Rim Song
"Breathe, baby, breathe!" ecodystopia in Brazilian science fiction film
/ Alfredo Suppia
Introduction: women and writing
/ Lisa Yaszek
Hail the conquering Campbellian s/hero: Joanna Russ's Alyx
/ Eileen Donaldson
Essentialism and constructionism in Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling
/ Kristen Lillvis
Joanna Russ and the murder of the female child: We who are about to--
/ Rebekah Sheldon
Learning to listen, listening to learn: the Taoist way in Ursula K. Le Guin's The telling
/ James Thrall.
Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
"These essays address the intersections among the reading, writing, and teaching of science fiction, placing analytical and pedagogical research next to each other to reveal how SF can be both an object of study and a teaching tool, examining SF as a genre of mediation between the sciences and the humanities, and SF in the media"--Provided by publisher