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" Suicide and contemporary science fiction / "
Carlos Gutiérrez-Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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BL
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640188
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Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl
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Suicide and contemporary science fiction /\ Carlos Gutiérrez-Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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xii, 192 pages ;; 24 cm
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9781107100404 (hbk.)
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: 1107100402 (hbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.
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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.
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Science fiction-- History and criticism.
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Suicide in literature.
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809.3/8762
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PN3433.6.G88 2015
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