The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

Index

Index Abe, Kobo, 274n33 Absent paradigm, 52 The Abyss, 201, 248 Acker, Kathy, 107, 214 Adorno, T. W., 176 Adventure fiction, 8, 217, 219–21, 225–43, 245 Aldiss, Brian, 82, 128, 224, 228, 270n35 Alien films, 10, 193, 194, 206–11, 212, 248, 252, 255 Aliens, 7, 33, 35, 37–38, 61, 78, 199–202, 213, 218, 223, 224, 247, 248, 249, 251, 252, 256, 259, 260 Alkon, Paul K., 79, 80, 85, 103 Altered States, 190, 195 Alternative universe/reality/world, 6,18, 33, 39, 50, 54, 61, 73, 81–82, 94, 95, 192, 216; alternative rationalities, 70. See also Parallel Worlds/Universe/Reality Alternative histories, 102–10 America(n), 7, 11, 27, 35, 41, 45, 108–109, 127, 144, 160, 166, 178, 223, 242, 257; and the American technological sublime, 156–58 Anderson, Benedict, 243 Angenot, Marc, 9, 105, 140, 272n10 Anomalies, 188, 191–92, 203 Anthropology, 34, 36, 39, 42, 45–46, 55, 106 Apocalypse, 3, 57, 59, 80, 264 Apollo 13, 241 Archetype, 9, 59, 61, 260 Arnason, Eleanor (Ring of Swords), 90, 177, 224, 248 Artificial immanence, 4, 26, 93 Asimov, Isaac, 82, 132, 252, 275n4; and Foundation, 39, 84, 221, 257 Attebery, Brian, 9, 216–17, 275n4 Atwood, Margaret (The Handmaid’s Tale), 62 Auerbach, Erich, 226 Aum Shinrikyo, 142 Back to the Future, 100 Bakhtin, M. M., 79–80, 182–185, 212, 219–20, 226, 289n10 Ballard, J. G., 9, 18, 82, 83, 136, 213 Banks, Iain M., 260 Barr, Marlene, 283n54 Barthes, Roland, 43, 140, 273n25 Battlestar Galactica, 255 Baudrillard, Jean, 137, 144, 170, 171–72, 193–94, 282n47, 283n61 Baxter, Stephen, 202 Bear, Greg (Blood Music), 130, 195 Benford, Gregory, 130–31, 280n6 Berman, Judith, 294n3 Bernal, J. D., 89, 260 Bernardi, Daniel, 9, 283n54 Bester, Alfred (The Stars My Destination), 30 Bishop, Michael (“Death and Designation Among the Asadi”), 107 Blade Runner, 10, 71, 199, 252–53, 261 Blake, William, 253 Blish, James, 84 Bloch, Ernst, 47–52, 53, 272n8; and the Ultimum 48, 51 Bloch, Marc, 79 Bloch, Robert, 91, 160 Bogdanov, Alexander, 86, 222, 223 The Borg, 199, 255, 260, 262 Borges, Jorge-Luis, 59–60, 167 Bould, Mark, 288n26 Boym, Svetlana, 285n17 Bradbury, Ray, 101, 105, 258 Brin, David, 253, 263 Broderick, Damien, 9, 21, 28, 275n4, 279n64 317 Brown, Frederick, 95 Brunner, John, 107, 132 Bukatman, Scott 2, 193, 233, 267n7, 284n2, 285n16, 285n21 Bulgakov, Mikhail, 86, 128 Burgess, Anthony (Clockwork Orange), 31–32, 44, 86 Burke, Edmund, 148, 150–152, 154, 191 Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 36, 132, 222 Butler, Andrew M., 290n15 Butler, Octavia, 10, 201, 249 Cadigan, Pat (Synners), 21 Campbell, John W., 25, 112, 141, 196, 202, 246 Čapek, Karel, 128, 191, 252, 253 Capitalism, 26, 46, 58, 96, 128, 137–38, 140, 209, 223, 239, 245, 250 Card, Orson Scott (Ender’s Game), 197 Carnivalesque, 62, 72, 209 Carter, Angela, 72 Cartwright, Nancy, 122, 282n52 Cawelti, John, 226 Charnas, Suzy McKee, 107 Chernyshova, Tatiana, 116–19 Cherryh, C. J., 76–77, 82 Chronotope, 79, 218, 219, 220, 221, 289n10 Cixous, Helène, 211 Clarke, Arthur C., 56, 73, 167, 168, 169, 254, 259, 285n23 Clement, Hal, 113–14, 129, 20 Clute, John, 9, 83, 137, 267n7 Cognition effect, 75, 139–40, 142 Constable, Catherine, 287n17 Crichton, Michael, 282n46 Cronenberg, David, 9, 189, 192–93, 194, 195, 197, 255 Cyberpunk 10, 26–29, 69, 108, 133, 137 Cyberspace, 2, 133, 251 Cyborgs, 61, 144, 198–99, 213, 265 Damianus, Petrus, 144 Darwin, 23, 81, 87–88, 96, 119, 122, 197, 200, 268n6 Dawkins, Richard, 124 The Day the Earth Stood Still, 86; and Klaatu, 249 Defoe, Daniel, 127, 226, 235, 245; and Robinson Crusoe, 127, 228, 229, 231, 232, 239, 242, 245 Del Rey, Lester, 95 Delany, Samuel R., 9, 22, 29, 78, 82, 86, 107, 141–42, 177, 213, 222, 249, 258, 275n3, 281n29 Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari, 144, 211 Derrida, Jacques, 144, 285n13 Dery, Mark, 267n7 Détournement, 16, 144, 225, 239, 250, 251, 255 Dick, Philip K., 10, 21, 62, 70–72, 100, 102, 178, 192–93, 201, 213, 214, 256, 278n43, 286n6, 288n26 Doctorow, Cory, 31 Donawerth, Jane, 283n54 Dorsey, Candace Jane, (A Paradigm of Earth), 177 Dracula, 236 Drexler, Eric, 134, 162 Dystopia, 61, 110, 136 Earth Girls Are Easy, 257 Edelman, Lee, 176 Edison, Thomas, 119, 232, 246 Einstein, Albert, 123 Elgin, Suzette Haden, 107, 177 Ellison, Harlan (“Demon with a Glass Hand”), 100, 199 Erickson, Steve, 107 Eshun, Kodwe, 9 Eugenics, 61...