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Imprint:	Lanham, MD : Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, ©2012.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 197 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures.
Subject:	English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism. Science fiction, Scottish -- History and criticism. Literature and society -- Scotland -- History. National characteristics, Scottish, in literature. Literature and history -- Scotland. English literature -- Scottish authors. Literature. Literature and history. Literature and society. National characteristics, Scottish, in literature. Science fiction, Scottish. Scotland -- In literature. Scotland. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11403696

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Other authors / contributors:	McCracken-Flesher, Caroline. Bucknell University Press.
ISBN:	9781611483758 1611483751 1283302691 9781283302692 9786613302694 6613302694 9781611483741
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Scots like Iain N. Banks and Ken MacLeod lead in a futuristic tradition, for from MacDonald, Barrie, and Stevenson onwards, Scots have been speculating in ways derived from their unique circumstances: lacking political power, they imagine future spaces and different places-with a twist. Nineteenth-century thermodynamics (theorized in Scotland), Celtic Otherworlds, and a Scotland always on the ""other side"" of history open unusual futures for Mitchison, Spark, Lindsay, Mitchell, MadDiarmid, Morgan, Crumey, Fitt, and Gray
Other form:	Print version: Scotland as science fiction. Lanham, MD : Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, ©2012

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