Description: Parabolas of Science Fiction - Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger PART I: INTRODUCING PARABOLAS Fictional Parabolas: Jazz, Geometry, and Generation Starships - Brian Attebery Dancing with Scheherazade: Some Reflections in the Djinni's Glass - Terry Dowling Breaking the Frame - Graham Sleight PART II: PARABLES OF POLITICS AND POWER Katherine MacLean's Short Science Fiction and Cytology: Science as Parabola - Jane Donawerth Second Contact: The First Contact Story in Latin American Science Fiction - Rachel Haywood Ferreira Parabolas of SFQ: Canadian Science Fiction in French and the Making of a "National" Subgenre - Amy J. Ransom The Domestic SF Parabola - Lisa Yaszek PART III: PARABLES OF REMEDIATION Mad Scientists, Chimps, and Mice with Human Brains: Collapsing Boundaries in Science Fiction - L. Timmel Duchamp Coded Transmissions: Gender and Genre Reception in The Matrix - David M. Higgins The Mad Scientist, the Failed Experiment, and the Queer Family of Man: Sirius, Frankenstein, and the SF Stockroom - John Rieder Back to the Filthy Workshop: "Faithful" Film Adaptations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Nicholas Ruddick PART IV: PARABOLIC FUTURES The Future of the Past: Science Fiction, Retro, and Retrofuturism - Pawe Frelik Babylon Revisited: Alternate Cosmologies from Farmer to Chiang - Gary K. Wolfe Science Fiction as Archive Fever - Veronica Hollinger Notes Works Cited Contributors Index

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