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After they are pulled 700,000 light-years away from Alpha Quadrant,
the captain and crew of Star Trek: Voyager must travel homeward
while exploring new challenges to their relationships, views of
others, and themselves. As the first extended, critical study
dedicated to Star Trek: Voyager, this book examines how the series
uses the physical distance from the crew's home quadrant and the
effect this has on the dynamics among community formation,
self-creation and a sense of place. Chapters cover topics such as
time travel, leadership models, interspecies relationships, the
impact of trauma, models of self-creation and individuality,
environmental influences on groups and individuals, memory,
nostalgia, and how spiritual experiences affect people. The
holographic Doctor and the former Borg, Seven of Nine, stand out as
complex and boundary-stretching figures.
The all-new essays in this book respond to the question, How do
spaces in science fiction, both built and unbuilt, help shape the
relationships among humans, other animals and their shared
environments? Spaces, as well as a sense of place or belonging,
play major roles in many science fiction works. This book focuses
especially on science fiction that includes depictions of the
future that include, but move beyond, dystopias and offer us ways
to imagine reinventing ourselves and our perspectives; especially
our links to and views of new environments. There are ecocritical
texts that deal with space/place and science fiction criticism that
deals with dystopias but there is no other collection that focuses
on the intersection of the two. The essays in this volume treat
Shelley's Frankenstein, Capek's War with the Newts, William
Morris's News from Nowhere, Le Guin's The Word for World Is Forest,
Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Philip K. Dick's
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Marge Piercy's He, She, It,
Neal Stephenson's Anathem, Amitav Ghosh's Calcutta Chromosome and
Cormac McCarthy's The Road.
Though science fiction and fantasy have existed as literary genres
for well over a century, a working definition of the terms has yet
to be determined. Ursula K. Le Guin, who emerged as a popular
science fiction and fantasy writer in the 1960s, has not only
witnessed, but also experienced first-hand the shifts and
transformations of these increasingly popular genres. Delve into
her fantastical worlds and investigate several of her famous works
in this study ideal for high school and undergraduate students.
Learn about the author's life and decade-spanning career, as well
as her numerous literary achievements. This comprehensive analysis
of Le Guin's work will leave readers anxious for her future
endeavors. After a biography that focuses on Le Guin's interest in
science fiction, this study delves into analyses of Le Guin's most
well-known works, with emphasis on plot, as well as thematic and
character development. Works covered include: BLA Wizard of
Earthsea (1968) BLThe Left Hand of Darkness (1969) BLThe Tombs of
Atuan (1970) BLThe Farthest Shore (1972) BLThe Lathe of Heaven
(1973) BLThe Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974) BLThe Eye of
the Heron (1978) BLTehanu (1990) and more.
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