Suicide and contemporary science fiction /

Suicide and contemporary science fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Science fiction > History and criticism.
Suicide in literature.
Science fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Living to wonder: Darwin and H.G. Wells' The island of Doctor Moreau
  • Stranded contacts: the transformative potential of grief in Stanislaw Lem's Solaris
  • Stealing kinship: William Gibson's Neuromancer and artificial intelligence
  • Escaping one's self: narcissism and cycles of violence in inception and looper
  • Environmental adaptation: creative apocalypse in Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy
  • Afterword: Creative self-destruction and 9/11.