BRIAN ATTEBERY is the editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and a professor of English at Idaho State University. His books include Decoding Gender in Science Fiction and Strategies of Fantasy. VERONICA HOLLINGER is coeditor of the journal Science Fiction Studies and of The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. She is a professor of cultural studies at Trent University, Ontario.
In this excellent collection of critical essays, Attebery and
Hollinger have recruited a talented stable of known and emerging
scholars to pursue implications of the parabola as a metaphor for
science fiction. The resulting collection justly deserves the
editors claim that the volume provides a significant addition to
science fiction scholarship with implications that go well beyond
the single genre through a detailed study of what is generally
considered to be a key defining characteristic of the [SF] genre.
Parabolas of Science Fiction rewards not only scholars of science
fiction, but any scholar who is concerned with genre theory. Sarah
Canfield Fuller, SFRA Review"
Parabolas of Science Fiction eschews formula, preferring instead to
signpost routes through a territory for others to explore the
linguistic and formal features and strategies that underpin the
dialogical nature of sf. The metaphor of the parabola offers a
convenient handle that encapsulates the idea of the borrowings
conducted by sf, along with the parable-like connection of sf to
the contemporary world. As such, it is a valuable consolidation of
several orientations to sf, and perhaps other genre fictions. Chris
Pak, Foundation"
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