From hyperspace to hypertext : masculinity, globalization, and their discontents /: masculinity, globalization, and their discontents. (2023)
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- Book
- Title:
- From hyperspace to hypertext : masculinity, globalization, and their discontents /: masculinity, globalization, and their discontents. (2023)
- Main Title:
- From hyperspace to hypertext : masculinity, globalization, and their discontents
- Further Information:
- Note: Christopher Leslie.
- Authors:
- (Lecturer), Leslie, Christopher
- Contents:
- Part I: The Gernsback Era Chapter 1: Cosmopolitan Gentlemen of Science 31.1 An Immigrant Battling Industrial Innovation 5 1.2 Pivot to Publishing 11 1.3 Masculinized Technology and Overcivilization 15 1.4 From Science Fact to Scientifiction 21 1.5 The Authors Gernsback Couldn't See 28 Chapter 2: Planet Smashers of the Second Industrial Revolution 35 2.1 A Genealogy of Science Fiction Magazines 36 2.2 The Paradigm of Progress 39 2.3 The New Sort of Magazine 46 2.4 Hyperspace and Race 57 2.5 The Cosmos Serial 65 Chapter 3: Have We Not Had Enough of War? 75 3.1 Navigating New Obstacles 77 3.2 Challengers to the Sciences of Difference 83 3.3 Clare Winger Harris: The Consequences of Bias 87 3.4 Leslie F. Stone: Science and Empire 93 3.5 L. Taylor Hansen: Antagonistic Anthropology 104 Part II: The Campbell Era Chapter 4: Archaeology of the Future 121 4.1 The 'New Author' with 'Marvelous Ability' 123 4.2 Homosocial Technical Teams 129 4.3 From Fandom and Pseudonyms to 'The Presence' 136 4.4 Manly White Civilization 153 4.5 Declining Reputation 159 Chapter 5: The Editor with One Hundred Hands 163 5.1 Disentangling Autobiography 165 5.2 Lab Partners in Outer Space 169 5.3 Interplanetary Prejudice 173 5.4 Misfits Fleeing Big Science 182 5.5 Repelling Women Writers 188 Chapter 6: The Challenges of Inclusion 201 6.1 C. L. Moore and the Lovecraft Circle 204 6.2 The Limits of Rationality 211 6.3 Leigh Brackett: Writing Like a Man 218 6.4 The Future of Inequality 224 Part III: The MerrilPart I: The Gernsback Era Chapter 1: Cosmopolitan Gentlemen of Science 31.1 An Immigrant Battling Industrial Innovation 5 1.2 Pivot to Publishing 11 1.3 Masculinized Technology and Overcivilization 15 1.4 From Science Fact to Scientifiction 21 1.5 The Authors Gernsback Couldn't See 28 Chapter 2: Planet Smashers of the Second Industrial Revolution 35 2.1 A Genealogy of Science Fiction Magazines 36 2.2 The Paradigm of Progress 39 2.3 The New Sort of Magazine 46 2.4 Hyperspace and Race 57 2.5 The Cosmos Serial 65 Chapter 3: Have We Not Had Enough of War? 75 3.1 Navigating New Obstacles 77 3.2 Challengers to the Sciences of Difference 83 3.3 Clare Winger Harris: The Consequences of Bias 87 3.4 Leslie F. Stone: Science and Empire 93 3.5 L. Taylor Hansen: Antagonistic Anthropology 104 Part II: The Campbell Era Chapter 4: Archaeology of the Future 121 4.1 The 'New Author' with 'Marvelous Ability' 123 4.2 Homosocial Technical Teams 129 4.3 From Fandom and Pseudonyms to 'The Presence' 136 4.4 Manly White Civilization 153 4.5 Declining Reputation 159 Chapter 5: The Editor with One Hundred Hands 163 5.1 Disentangling Autobiography 165 5.2 Lab Partners in Outer Space 169 5.3 Interplanetary Prejudice 173 5.4 Misfits Fleeing Big Science 182 5.5 Repelling Women Writers 188 Chapter 6: The Challenges of Inclusion 201 6.1 C. L. Moore and the Lovecraft Circle 204 6.2 The Limits of Rationality 211 6.3 Leigh Brackett: Writing Like a Man 218 6.4 The Future of Inequality 224 Part III: The Merril Era Chapter 7: Confronting Cold War Masculinity 237 7.1 Finding Community 240 7.2 Becoming Judith Merril 253 7.3 Doubting Homo Superior 258 7.4 Refashioning Gender in the Cold War 264 7.5 Small Frog in a Big Pond 276 Chapter 8: The End of Science Fiction 283 8.1 Changing Markets, Changing Audiences 285 8.2 Merril as Anthologist and Reviewer 294 8.3 New Wave or New Thing 300 8.4 Some of the Authors Merril Saw 305 8.5 Dying Astronauts 315 Chapter 9: Science Fiction and the University 321 9.1 Challenges to Technological Determinism 323 9.2 Science Fiction Computing 326 9.3 The Crime and the Glory of Hypertext 332 9.4 Entering the Classroom 340 9.5 A Theory for the New Wave 345. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2023
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 306.45
Science -- Social aspects
Communication in science
Science and civilization
Science fiction - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9789819920273
- Related ISBNs:
- 9789819920266
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- Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.818054
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