Science Fantasy

Cenk Tan is lecturer doctor at Pamukkale University in Denizli, Turkey. Nazan Yıldız Çiçekçi is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey. Elçin Parçaoğlu is assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Pamukkale University in Denizli, Turkey.

Editors’ Foreword: Cenk Tan, Elçin Parçaoğlu and Nazan Yıldız Çiçekçi

Introduction: Fantasy and Science Fiction: “A Rationalized Fantasy”, Nazan Yıldız Çiçekçi

Chapter One: Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End: A Critique of Free Will, Determinism and Predestination, Cenk Tan

Chapter Two: Science Undertakes the Task: An Analysis of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children through Science Fantasy, Elçin Parçaoğlu

Chapter Three: Andre Norton’s Androgynous Equality and Subverting Gender Roles and

Hue of Witchcraft in Witch World, Nazan Yıldız Çiçekçi

Chapter Four: In the Shadow of the Past and of the Source Text: I, Frankenstein as Adaptation and Americanization, Defne Ersin Tutan

Chapter Five: From Mighty Warrior to Goofy Dad: Exploring Masculinities in the Thor Franchise, Sotirios Bampatzimopoulos

Chapter Six: Mars and the Martians as Others in Philip K. Dick’s Story and its Film Adaptation, Ercan Gürova

Chapter Seven: Reimagining Marronage in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber, Keisha Allan

Chapter Eight: Mothering in the Multiverse: Representations of Shifting Maternal Identities in Popular Science Fiction Films, Sarah Young

Chapter Nine: The Science Fantasy of Michael Moorcock, Karol Jaroszewski

Chapter Ten: Conscious Counter-Reality: Lexical Cohesion and Anti-Language in Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Michael Arthur Soares

Chapter Eleven: Exploring Feminist Utopia: A Neo-Realist Analysis of The Feminist Utopia Project, Gül Varlı Karaarslan

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