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• W349347411 abstract "Hassler, Donald M., and Clyde Wilcox, eds. New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 362 pp. Cloth. ISBN 978-1-57003-736-8. $44.95. New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction is a follow-up companion to 1997's Political Science Fiction, also edited by Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox. Longer than its predecessor, New Boundaries offers twenty-two essays on sf and politics in a volume covers full ten years of politics and of science fiction since last book (ix). This may make sound as if essays solely address those ten years, yet coverage of book is far greater, with contributors covering recent topics--for example, terrorism and much-maligned politics of now-defunct Bush administration--and analyzing writers from a variety of eras such as William Blake, Greg Egan, Robert J. Sawyer, Iain M. Banks, and China Mieville. staples of many sf essay collections are discussed here, including cyberpunk, feminism, and race, as well as specific writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, and William Gibson, but is very refreshing also to see a place found for newer sf texts such as Firefly and Battlestar Galactica, in addition to less-studied areas such as Latin American works. Hassler and Wilcox have divided New Boundaries into three sections: On Personal 'New Man,' On Power and 'Nation,' and On Individual Writers and Situations. first section aims to discuss potential of new mankind (viii). essays in second part include pieces that evoke old power centers of competitive empires and nation-states (ix). final section considers division personal and efficient organization of a systems approach to human affairs (ix). These categories have considerable crossover, of course, and relationship between essays and their categories is not always immediately clear. Ranging from nine to thirty pages, essays vary in length and approach to their main topics. depth of these essays also varies, with most pieces offering valuable insights into texts, authors, and theories; a handful of contributions are more general introductions to their topics and therefore will be of greater benefit to newcomers to genre than to scholars. There are some terrific essays in collection address a range of political areas. Highlights include Lisa Yaszek's contribution, a well-written and well-structured standout piece offers an excellent assessment of post-WWII intersections between technologies and gender. Yaszek follows her discussion of historical context with an analysis of Judith Merril's sf, arguing sf offers a good medium for Merril's progressive [feminist] political (90). activities of women at time in organizations such as Women Strike for Peace, as well as their growing importance in scientific endeavors (Yaszek notes their participation was credited for Soviets' early lead in space race), meant female protagonists in sf narratives had more credibility: it seemed future was wide open and women might be at home anywhere from laundry room to launchpad (81). Another essay focuses on a particular time in sf history is Mark Decker's piece on dystopia, which surveys early twentieth-century political dystopias of E. M. Forster's short story The Machine Stops and Max Nordau's non-fiction study, Degeneration. Decker links these works to biomedical imaginary, a concept drawn from other theorists describes flawed science arising from relationship between medical science and fiction, where the ideas of medical investigators infuse popular discourse just as popular discourse infuses ideas of medical investigators, and this infusion can have political consequences as medical discourse is popularized and amateur diagnoses of social ills are made (54). …" @default.
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