Scotland as science fiction

• Main Author: McCracken-Flesher, Caroline
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Blue Ridge Summit The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 2012; Bucknell University Press
• Edition: 1
• Series: Aperçus: histories texts cultures a bucknell series
• Subjects: English literature; History; History and criticism; In literature; Literature and history; Literature and society; National characteristics, Scottish, in literature; Science fiction, Scottish; Scotland; Scottish authors

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,...

Table of Contents:

• Scotland as science fiction -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Scotland’s Fantastic Physics: Energy Transformation in MacDonald, Stevenson, Barrie, and Spark -- The Other Otherworld: Didactic Fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to J. Leslie Mitchell -- Allegory and Cruelty: Gray’s Lanark and Lindsay’s A Voyage to Arcturus -- Speculative Nationality: “Stands Scotland Where it Did?” in the Culture of Iain M. Banks -- Between Enlightenment and the End of History: Ken MacLeod’s Engines of Light -- The Cosmic (Cosmo)Polis in Naomi Mitchison’s Science Fiction Novels -- Nonviolence, Gender, and Ecology: Margaret Elphinstone’s The Incomer and A Sparrow’s Flight -- Past and Future Language: Matthew Fitt and Iain M. Banks -- Scottish Poetry as Science Fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid, and Morgan’s “A Home in Space” -- Brave New Scotland: Science Fiction without Stereotypes in Fitt and Crumey -- Alba Newton and Alasdair Gray -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors
• Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Scotland's Fantastic Physics: Energy Transformation in MacDonald, Stevenson, Barrie, and Spark -- The Other Otherworld: Didactic Fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to J. Leslie Mitchell -- Allegory and Cruelty: Gray's Lanark and Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus -- Speculative Nationality: "Stands Scotland Where it Did?" in the Culture of Iain M. Banks -- Between Enlightenment and the End of History: Ken MacLeod's Engines of Light -- The Cosmic (Cosmo)Polis in Naomi Mitchison's Science Fiction Novels -- Nonviolence, Gender, and Ecology: Margaret Elphinstone's The Incomer and A Sparrow's Flight -- Past and Future Language: Matthew Fitt and Iain M. Banks -- Scottish Poetry as Science Fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid, and Morgan's "A Home in Space" -- Brave New Scotland: Science Fiction without Stereotypes in Fitt and Crumey -- Alba Newton and Alasdair Gray -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors