The Influence of Imagination

Lee Easton is an English professor at Mount Royal College in Alberta, Canada. Randy Schroeder, an active writer of fantasy and speculative poetry, is an English professor at Mount Royal College.

Table of Contents



Acknowledgments     

Preface: From Future Visions to Critical Singularities     

Introduction: Polarities at the Singularity (Randy Schroeder)     



1. The Continuum of Meaning: A Reflection on Speculative Fiction and Society (Marie Jakober)     

2. Peter Jackson and the Deforestation of Middle Earth (David Hyttenrauch)     

3. Seeking Stories: Possible Worlds Semantics in Greer Ilene Gilman’s Moonwise (Christine Mains)     

4. “Dancing on the Edge of the World”: California and Utopia in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home (Ken Simpson)     

5. Passing Genes in GATTACA, or, Straight Genes for the Queer Guy (Lee Easton)     

6. The Changing Role of Women in Science Fiction: Weird Tales, 1925–1940 (Mary Hemmings)     

7. Storytelling and Folktales: A Graphic Exploration (Gail de Vos)     

8. The Graphic Novel as New Testament: On Narrative Progress, Cultural Change and the Heroic Story (Richard Harrison)     

9. Science Fiction, Religion, and Social Change (Steven Engler)     

10. Science and Science Fiction (Todd C. Nickle)     

11. Olaf Stapledon’s Americanized Planet (Robert Boschman)     

12. Nalo Hopkinson’s Colonial and Dystopic Worlds in Midnight Robber (Ruby S. Ramraj)     

13. “Wartime Inventions with Peaceful Intentions”: Television and the Media Cyborg in C.L. Moore’s No Woman Born (Linda Howell)     

14. The Fantasy of Gender/Sex: Angela Carter and Mythmaking (Darlene M. Juschka)     

15. In the Spirit of Process: A Braiding Together of New Utopianism, Gilles Deleuze, and Anne Carson (Jacqueline Plante)     

16. Dystopia in a New Land (Karyn Huenemann)     

17. Surfing the Singularity: Science Fiction and the Future of Narrative Media (Brian Greenspan)     



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