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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

Table of Contents:

Scotland's fantastic physics: energy transformation in MacDonald, Stevenson, Barrie, and Spark / Cairns Craig
The other otherworld: didactic fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to J. Leslie Mitchell / J. Derrick McClure
Allegory and cruelty: Gray's Lanark and Lindsay's A voyage to Arcturus / Ian Duncan
Speculative nationality: 'Stands Scotland where it did?' in the Culture of Iain M. Banks / John Garrison
Between enlightenment and the end of history: Ken MacLeod's Engines of light / Gavin Miller
The cosmic (cosmo)polis in Naomi Mitchison's science fiction novels / Carla Sassi
Non-violence, gender, and ecology: Margaret Elphinstone's The incomer and A sparrow's flight / Alison Phipps
Past and future language: Matthew Fitt and Iain M. Banks / John Corbett
Scottish poetry as science fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid, and Morgan's 'A home in space' / Alan Riach
Brave new Scotland: science fiction without stereotypes in Fitt and Crumey / Lisa Harrison
Alba Newton and Alasdair Gray / Matthew Wickman.

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