Since the end of the Second World WarOCoand particularly over
the last decadeOCoJapanese science fiction has strongly influenced
global popular culture. Unlike American and British science
fiction, its most popular examples have been visualOCofrom Gojira"
(Godzilla)" and Astro Boy" in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime
masterpieces Akira" and Ghost in the Shell" of the 1980s and
1990sOCowhile little attention has been paid to a vibrant tradition
of prose science fiction in Japan.
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Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams" remedies this neglect with a rich
exploration of the genre that connects prose science fiction to
contemporary anime. Bringing together Western scholars and leading
Japanese critics, this groundbreaking work traces the beginnings,
evolution, and future direction of science fiction in Japan, its
major schools and authors, cultural origins and relationship to its
Western counterparts, the role of the genre in the formation of
JapanOCOs national and political identity, and its unique fan
culture.
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Covering a remarkable range of textsOCofrom the 1930s fantastic
detective fiction of Yumeno Kysaku to the cross-culturally produced
and marketed film and video game franchise Final Fantasy"OCothis
book firmly establishes Japanese science fiction "as a vital and
exciting genre.
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Contributors: Hiroki Azuma; Hiroko Chiba, DePauw U; Naoki Chiba;
William O. Gardner, Swarthmore College; Mari Kotani; Livia Monnet,
U of Montreal; Miri Nakamura, Stanford U; Susan Napier, Tufts U;
Sharalyn Orbaugh, U of British Columbia; Tamaki Sait; Thomas
Schnellbncher, Berlin Free U.
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Christopher Bolton is assistant professor of Japanese at
Williams College.
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Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. is professor of English at DePauw
University.
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Takayuki Tatsumi is professor of English at Keio
University."
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