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WHAT IT IS WE DO WHEN
WE READ SCIENCE FICTION
Paul Kincaid
Shortlisted for 2009 Hugo Award
for Best Related Book
Shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association
award for Best Nonfiction Work of 2008.
Shortlisted for the British FantasyAssociation
award for Best Nonfiction Work of 2008.
Finalist for the 2009 Locus Award
for Best Non-Fiction Book
On the Locus "Recommended Reading List"
of the best non-fiction of 2008.
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Reviews of this book appear on the following sites -
Strange Horizons
Blog of the Fallen
Fruitless Recursion
SF Site
Wotmania
and have also appeared in the following journals
Interzone#217 (by Andrew J Wilson)
Locus#569 (by Gary K Wolfe)
Vector#257 (by Adam Roberts)
Science Fiction Studies #108 (by Pawel Frelik)
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts - v19n3 (by Brian Attebery)
Sample pieces from this book can be viewed here.
Paul Kincaid
is a critic and reviewer - a regular contributor to a variety of magazines and journals, such as the BSFA's Vector, Foundation and the New York Review of Science Fiction. He has also contributed to many SF reference works, and was for 11 years the administrator of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He is the recipient of the Thomas D. Clareson Award for services to science fiction. His essay "Blank Pages" (included in this collection) was on the Recommended Reading list for the BSFA Non-Fiction Award, as was The Arthur C. Clarke Award: A Critical Anthology which he co-edited with Andrew M. Butler.
This is his first collection of essays.
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Paperback, vi + 365 pages.
230 x 150 mm, perfect bound.
Publication date 21 March 2008.
Price - UK£15.00
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ISBN 9781 - 870824 - 54 - 5
Contents list for WHAT IT IS WE DO WHEN WE READ SCIENCE FICTION
- INTRODUCTION
- iii - Acknowledgements
- v - Introducing Paul Kincaid - by David Langford
- I : THEORY
- 3 - What it is we do when we read Science Fiction
- 13 - On the Origins of Genre
- II : PRACTICE
- 25 - Anatomising Science Fiction
- 29 - How Hard is SF?
- 41 - The New Hard Men of SF
- 49 - Mistah Kurtz, He Dead
- 61 - The North-South Continuum
- 75 - A Year at its Best?
- III : CHRISTOPHER PRIEST
- 89 - Blank pages: Islands and Identity in the Fiction of Christopher Priest
- 107 - Mirrors, Doubles, Twins
- 129 - "The Discharge"
- 133 - 10/10 May/May: Singling Out the Duplication in The Separation
- IV : BRITAIN ...
- 141 - Islomania? Insularity?: The Myth of the Island in Britiah Science Fiction
- 149 - Apres moi . . .
- 153 - Elegy
- 157 - Touching the Earth
- 165 - Inside Chris Evans
- 173 - The Furies
- 189 - Maps of a Curious Sort: Landscape in the Fiction of Keith Roberts
- 197 - In the Pickle Jar: Appleseed or Mimesis
- V : ... AND THE WORLD
- 207 - Secret Maps
- 237 - Exhibits
- 255 - Entering the Labyrinth
- 267 - Emptiness Gets Into You
- 273 - Forever Haldeman
- 277 - A Mode of Head-on Collision:
George Turner's Critical Relationship with Science Fiction
- 291 - Heterotopic Borders
- VI : GENE WOLFE
- 297 - Images of the Fall
- 307 - We Joke for Gods
- 321 - False Dog
- 325 - Attending Daedalus
- VII : 1 APRIL 1984
- 331 - By-ways of the Shining Path
- VIII : NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 335 - Notes
- 339 - Sources
- 343 - Bibliography
- IX : INDEX
- 351 - Index - compiled by Leigh Kennedy Priest
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