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World Weavers is the first ever study on the relationship between globalization and science fiction. Scientific innovations provide citizens of different nations with a unique common ground and the means to establish new connections with distant lands. This study attempts to investigate how our world has grown more and more interconnected not only due to technological advances, but also to a shared interest in those advances and to what they might lead to in the future.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vii
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. ix-xi
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  1. Introduction From Semaphores and Steamships to Servers and Spaceships: The Saga of Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution
  2. pp. 1-4
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  1. PART 1 - Global Perspectives
  1. 1. Going Mobile: Tradition, Technology, and the Cultural Monad
  2. pp. 7-24
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  1. 2. Urbe et Orbe: A Prehistory of the Postmodern World City
  2. pp. 25-40
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  1. 3. 2001, or A Cyberpalace Odyssey: Toward the Ideographic Imagination
  2. pp. 41-54
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  1. 4.The Genealogy of the Cyborg in Japanese Popular Culture
  2. pp. 55-72
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  1. 5. Hermeneutics and Taiwan Science Fiction
  2. pp. 73-94
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  1. 6. Is Utopia Obsolete? Imploding Boundaries in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age1
  2. pp. 95-110
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  1. PART 2 - History Lessons
  1. 7. Tales of Futures Passed: The Kipling Continuum and Other Lost Worlds of Science Fiction
  2. pp. 113-134
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  1. 8. Globalization in Japanese Science Fiction, 1900 and 1963: The Seabed Warship and Its Re-Interpretation
  2. pp. 135-142
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  1. 9. The Limits of "Humanity" in Comparative Perspective: Cordwainer Smith and the Soushenji
  2. pp. 143-156
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  1. 10. The Idea of the Asian in Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle
  2. pp. 157-166
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  1. 11. Godzilla's Travels: The Evolution of a Globalized Gargantuan
  2. pp. 167-188
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  1. PART 3 - Contemporary Case Studies
  1. 12. Black Secret Technology: African Technological Subjects1
  2. pp. 191-204
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  1. 13. The Teeth of the New Cockatoo: Mutation and Trauma in Greg Egan's Teranesia
  2. pp. 205-214
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  1. 14. When Cyberfeminism Meets Chinese Philosophy: Computer, Weaving and Women
  2. pp. 215-232
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  1. 15. Hollywood Enters the Dragon
  2. pp. 233-244
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  1. 16. Romeo Must Die: Action and Agency in Hollywood and Hong Kong Action Films
  2. pp. 245-254
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  1. Afterword
  2. pp. 255-258
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 259-286
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  1. Bibliography of Works Related to Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution
  2. pp. 287-300
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 301-307
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