Lingua Cosmica (ePub)

Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and students alike face a problem. Where does one begin to explore global SF in the absence of an established canon? Lingua Cosmica opens the door to some of the creators in the vanguard of international science fiction. Eleven experts offer innovative English-language scholarship on figures ranging from Cuban pioneer Daína Chaviano to Nigerian filmmaker Olatunde Osunsanmi to the Hugo Award-winning Chinese writer Liu Cixin. These essays invite readers to ponder the themes, formal elements, and unique cultural characteristics within the works of these irreplaceable—if too-little-known—artists. Dale Knickerbocker includes fantasists and genre-benders pushing SF along new evolutionary paths even as they draw on the traditions of their own literary cultures. Includes essays on Daína Chaviano (Cuba), Jacek Dukaj (Poland), Jean-Claude Dunyac (France), Andreas Eschbach (Germany), Angélica Gorodischer (Argentina), Sakyo Komatsu (Japan), Liu Cixin (China), Laurent McAllister (Yves Meynard and Jean-Louis Trudel, Francophone Canada), Olatunde Osunsanmi (Nigeria), Johanna Sinisalo (Finland), and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russia). Contributors: Alexis Brooks de Vita, Pawel Frelik, Yvonne Howell, Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, Vibeke Rützou Petersen, Amy J. Ransom, Hanna-Riikka Roine, Hanna Samola, Mingwei Song, Tatsumi Takayuki, Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo, and Natacha Vas-Deyres.|
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Introduction / Dale Knickerbocker
Daína Chaviano's Science-Fiction Oeuvre: Fables of an Extraterrestrial Grandmother / Juan Carlos Tole
Jacek Dukaj's Science Fiction as Philosophy / Paweł Frelik
Jean-Claude Dunyach, Poet of the Flesh / Natacha Vas-Deyres
Andreas Eschbach's Futures and Germany's Past / Vibeke Rützou Petersen
Angélica Gorodischer: Only a Storyteller / Yolanda Molina-Gavilán
Sakyo Komatsu's Planetary Imagination: Reading Virus and The Day of Resurrection / Tatsumi Takayuki
Liu Cixin's Three-Body Trilogy: Between the Sublime Cosmos and the Micro Era / Mingwei Song
Laurent McAllister: Rhizomatic Space and the Posthuman / Amy J. Ransom
Olatunde Osunsanmi and Living the Transatlantic Apocalypse: The Fourth Kind / Alexis Brooks de Vita
Johanna Sinisalo and the New Weird: Genres and Myths / Hanna-Riikka Roine and Hanna Samola
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: The Science-Fictionality of Russian Culture / Yvonne Howell
Contributors
Index|Dale Knickerbocker is Distinguished Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University. He is the author of Juan José Millás: The Obsessive-Compulsive Aesthetic .