Scotland as Science Fiction

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Science Fiction, Poetry History & Criticism, British
Cover of the book Scotland as Science Fiction by Caroline McCracken-Flesher, John Corbett, Cairns Craig, Ian Duncan, John Garrison, Lisa Harrison, J Derrick McClure, Gavin Miller, Alison Phipps, Alan Riach, Carla Sassi, Matthew Wickman, Bucknell University Press
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Author: Caroline McCracken-Flesher, John Corbett, Cairns Craig, Ian Duncan, John Garrison, Lisa Harrison, J Derrick McClure, Gavin Miller, Alison Phipps, Alan Riach, Carla Sassi, Matthew Wickman ISBN: 9781611483758
Publisher: Bucknell University Press Publication: October 26, 2011
Imprint: Bucknell University Press Language: English
Author: Caroline McCracken-Flesher, John Corbett, Cairns Craig, Ian Duncan, John Garrison, Lisa Harrison, J Derrick McClure, Gavin Miller, Alison Phipps, Alan Riach, Carla Sassi, Matthew Wickman
ISBN: 9781611483758
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Publication: October 26, 2011
Imprint: Bucknell University Press
Language: English

Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international politics, Scots have cultivated alternate places and different times as sites of identity so that Scotland can seem a futuristic fiction itself.

This book explores the tensions between science and a particular society that produce an innovative science fiction. Essays consider Scottish thermodynamics, Celtic myth, the rigors of religious “conversion,” Scotland’s fractured politics yet civil society, its languages of alterity (Scots, Gaelic, allegory, poetry), and the lure of the future. From Peter Pan and Dr. Jekyll to the poetry of Edwin Morgan and the worlds of Muriel Spark, Ken Macleod, or Iain M. Banks, Scotland’s creative complex yields a literature that models the future for Science Fiction.

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Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international politics, Scots have cultivated alternate places and different times as sites of identity so that Scotland can seem a futuristic fiction itself.

This book explores the tensions between science and a particular society that produce an innovative science fiction. Essays consider Scottish thermodynamics, Celtic myth, the rigors of religious “conversion,” Scotland’s fractured politics yet civil society, its languages of alterity (Scots, Gaelic, allegory, poetry), and the lure of the future. From Peter Pan and Dr. Jekyll to the poetry of Edwin Morgan and the worlds of Muriel Spark, Ken Macleod, or Iain M. Banks, Scotland’s creative complex yields a literature that models the future for Science Fiction.

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