Video Gaming in Science Fiction

Jason Barr is an associate professor at Blue Ridge Community College. His work has appeared in African American Review, Explicator, The Journal of Continuing Higher Education, and The Journal of Caribbean Literatures, among others. He lives in Weyers Cave, Virginia. Series editor Matthew Wilhelm Kapell teaches American studies, anthropology, and writing at Pace University in New York.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1: The Game and the Gamespace

2: Geekdom and the Gamer as Social Outcast

3: We’re All Grown Up Now: The “Maturation” and Insularity of Video Gaming and Science Fiction

4: Gender and the Body Politic

5: Fighting “the Man”: Against Governments and Corporations

6: Juvenile Science Fiction and the Future

Afterword: The Origins of Video Gaming in Science

Fiction Cinema

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index