Scotland As Science Fiction |
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| Author:
| McCracken-Flesher, Caroline |
| Contribution by:
| Corbett, John
Craig, Cairns
Duncan, Ian
Garrison, John
Harrison, Lisa
McClure, J. Derrick
Miller, Gavin
Phipps, Alison
Riach, Alan
Sassi, Carla
Wickman, Matthew |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61148-375-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Publisher: | RLPG - Bucknell UP
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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Scots like Iain N. Banks and Ken MacLeod lead in a futuristic tradition, for from MacDonald, Barrie, and Stevenson onwards, Scots have been speculating in ways derived from their unique circumstances: lacking political power, they imagine future spaces and different places--with a twist. Nineteenth-century thermodynamics (theorized in Scotland), Celtic Otherworlds, and a Scotland always on the "other side" of history open unusual futures for Mitchison, Spark, Lindsay, Mitchell,...
More DescriptionScots like Iain N. Banks and Ken MacLeod lead in a futuristic tradition, for from MacDonald, Barrie, and Stevenson onwards, Scots have been speculating in ways derived from their unique circumstances: lacking political power, they imagine future spaces and different places--with a twist. Nineteenth-century thermodynamics (theorized in Scotland), Celtic Otherworlds, and a Scotland always on the "other side" of history open unusual futures for Mitchison, Spark, Lindsay, Mitchell, MadDiarmid, Morgan, Crumey, Fitt, and Gray.