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'''''Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings''. Rob Latham, compiler, editor.''' London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 


A substantial anthology of over 500 pages with Latham contributing — in addition to an essay, "Biotic invasions […]" — an Introduction, a "List of contributors" with a brief paragraph on each, an Index, and briefly annotated lists of "Recommended further reading" (sic on capitalization) for each of the volume's five Parts: (1) Definitions and boundaries, (2) Structure and form, (3) Ideology and world view, (4) The nonhuman, (5) Race and the legacy of colonialism. Includes Bruce Sterling's "[[Preface to Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology]]," Veronica Hollinger, "[[Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism]]," Susan Sontag's "[[The Imagination of Disaster]]," Philip K. Dick's speech "[[The Android and the Human]]," Donna Haraway's "[[A Manifesto for Cyborgs|A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century]],"  N. Katherine Hayles's "[[Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers]]," Vernor Vinge's "[[The Coming Technological Singularity]]: How to Survive in a Post-Human Era," Allison de Fren's "[[Technofetishism and the Uncanny Desires of A.S.F.R.]] (alt.sex.fetish.robots)," and Lysa Rivera's "[[Future Histories and Cyborg Labor: Reading Borderlands Science Fiction After NAFTA]]." 

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