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" World weavers : "
edited by Wong Kin Yuen, Gary Westfahl and Amy Kit-sze Chan
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689141
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b511330
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World weavers : : globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution /\ edited by Wong Kin Yuen, Gary Westfahl and Amy Kit-sze Chan
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Hong Kong :: Hong Kong University Press,, [2005]
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, ©2005
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xi, 307 pages ;; 24 cm
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9622097219
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: 9622097227 (pbk.)
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: 9789622097216
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: 9789622097223 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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From semaphors and steamships to servers and spaceships: the saga of globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution / Gary Westfahl -- Going mobile: tradition, technology, and the cultural monad / George Slusser -- Urge et Orbe: a prehistory of the postmodern world city / Howard V. Hendrix -- 2001, or a cyberpalace odyssey: toward the ideographic imagination / Takayuki Tatsumi -- The genealogy of the cyborg in Japanese popular culture / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Hermeneutics and Taiwan science fiction / Wong Kin Yuen -- Is utopia obsolete? Imploding boundaries in Neal Stephenson's The diamond age / N. Katherine Hayles -- Tales of futures passed: the Kipling continuum and other lost worlds of science fiction / Andy Sawyer -- Globalization in Japanese science fiction, 1900 and 1963: The seabed warship and its re-interpretation . Thonmas Schnellbacher -- The limits of "humanity" in comparative perspective: Cordwainer Smith and the Soushenji / Lisa Raphals -- The idea of the Asian in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle / Jake Jakaitis -- Godzilla's travels: the evolution of a globalized gargantuan / Gary Westfahl -- Black secret technology: African technological subjects / Gerald Gaylard -- The teeth of the new cockatoo: mutation and trauma in Greg Egan's Teranesia / Chris Palmer -- When cyberfeminism meets Chinese philosophy: computer, weaving and women / Amy Kit-sze Chan -- Hollywood enters the dragon / Véronique Flambard-Weisbart -- Romeo must die: action and agency in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films / Susanne Rieser and Susanne Lummerding
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Culture and globalization
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Cybernetics in literature
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Science fiction-- History and criticism
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Science fiction-- Social aspects
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Chan, Amy Kit-sze
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Westfahl, Gary
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Wong, Kin-yuen,1944-
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