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Limning Science Fiction's Edges

Limning Science Fiction's Edges H E AT H E R J . Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon, eds., Edging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 280 pp. $59.95; $22.50 paper. dging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation, edited by Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon, will be useful to readers new to science fiction criticism, as it provides an excellent overview of the central concerns that currently preoccupy the field. It also boasts a few pieces that represent the best intellectual work SF scholars are producing today. The conceptual goals of the collection are relatively general; the editors state in their introduction that they wish to "examine science fiction's complex intersections with this transitory present moment"; to "catch up to the imaginative futures being constructed in contemporary science fiction"; and to "disrupt the potential ossification of the sf canon as it has been developed through the academic teaching and critical writing of the 1990s" (2). Clearly, in suggesting that they are interested in how science fiction depicts the present and the future, the editors are casting a very wide net. Hollinger and Gordon's third aim, to loosen the perimeter of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Literature University of Wisconsin Press

Limning Science Fiction's Edges

Hicks, Heather J.
Contemporary Literature , Volume 45 (1) – Jun 9, 2004
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H E AT H E R J . Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon, eds., Edging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 280 pp. $59.95; $22.50 paper. dging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation, edited by Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon, will be useful to readers new to science fiction criticism, as it provides an excellent overview of the central concerns that currently preoccupy the field. It also boasts a few pieces that represent the best intellectual work SF scholars are producing today. The conceptual goals of the collection are relatively general; the editors state in their introduction that they wish to "examine science fiction's complex intersections with this transitory present moment"; to "catch up to the imaginative futures being constructed in contemporary science fiction"; and to "disrupt the potential ossification of the sf canon as it has been developed through the academic teaching and critical writing of the 1990s" (2). Clearly, in suggesting that they are interested in how science fiction depicts the present and the future, the editors are casting a very wide net. Hollinger and Gordon's third aim, to loosen the perimeter of the

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