123 research outputs found
Decolonizing the Future: Review of Jessica Langer\u27s \u3cem\u3ePostcolonialism and Science Fiction\u3c/em\u3e and Ericka Hoagland and Reema Sarwal\u27s \u3cem\u3eScience Fiction, Imperialism and the Third World\u3c/em\u3e
Superceding Cyberpunk: Review of Graham J. Murphy and Sherryl Vint\u27s \u3cem\u3eBeyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives\u3c/em\u3e
Reviews of John Rieder\u27s \u3cem\u3eColonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction\u3c/em\u3e; Elizabeth Young\u27s \u3cem\u3eBlack Frankenstein\u3c/em\u3e; Matthew J. Costello\u27s \u3cem\u3eSecret Identity Crisis : Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America\u3c/em\u3e
Review of Seo-Young Chu\u27s \u3cem\u3eDo Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?: A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation\u3c/em\u3e
Keen, Sober, and Smart: Review of Eric Otto\u27s \u3cem\u3eGreen Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism\u3c/em\u3e
A Dread Mystery, Compelling Adoration : Olaf Stapledon, \u3cem\u3eStar Maker\u3c/em\u3e, and Totality
Using research undertaken at the Olaf Stapledon archive at the University of Liverpool, this article explores the tension between cosmopolitan optimism and cosmic pessimism that structures Stapledon\u27s 1937 novel Star Maker, and asks whether the novel succeeds in solving the philosophical problems that first spurred Stapledon to write it. I conclude, unhappily, that it does not: while an impressive achievement, and despite a surface optimism, the book\u27s confrontation with infinity, totality, and the sublime is ultimately depressive rather than generative of a felicitous cosmological order, requiring Stapledon to try again and again to somehow solve this philosophical conundrum in the subsequent books that make up the later portion of his career
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