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Space for Peace - Fragments of the Irish Troubles in the Science Fiction of Bob Shaw and James White (Hardcover)
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Space for Peace - Fragments of the Irish Troubles in the Science Fiction of Bob Shaw and James White (Hardcover)
Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, 68
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Science fiction might not be the first thing that springs to mind
when we think of Irish literature. But in the post-war period in
Belfast, two authors, Bob Shaw and James White, began producing
science fiction stories, eventually selling them to international
markets and gaining the respect of luminaries such as Arthur C.
Clarke, Brian Aldiss and Stanley Kubrick. Although lauded in the
international science fiction scene for their innovations in the
genre, Shaw and White's work has been relatively ignored within
Irish Studies. This book connects the emergence of science fiction
in Belfast with the position of the city as the locus of
technological development on the island of Ireland, and the
development of a corresponding technological imaginary. Breaking
new ground in the study of Irish modernity, Richard Howard draws
parallels between the narratives of Shaw and White and the
persistent influence of historical narratives embodied by the
two-traditions paradigm in the region, as well as exploring the
figure of the alien both in science fiction and in the history of
Northern Ireland. He also considers the works of Shaw and White as
utopian gestures against the backdrop of the Irish Troubles,
finding both repressive and redemptive elements therein. The book
makes an important contribution to the growing conversation about
Irish science fiction and our understanding of modernity in
Ireland.
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