Gothic Science Fiction

Sara Wasson is Lecturer in Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University and author of 'Urban Gothic of the Second World War: Dark London' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Emily Alder is Lecturer in Literature at Edinburgh Napier University.

• AcknowledgementsList of illustrationsForeword - Adam RobertsNotes on contributorsIntroduction - Sara Wasson and Emily AlderPart I: Redefining Genres1. In the Zone: Topologies of Genre Weirdness - Roger Luckhurst2. Zombie Death Drive: Between Gothic and Science Fiction - Fred BottingPart II: Biopower Capital3. ‘Death is Irrelevant’: Gothic Science Fiction and the Biopolitics of Empire - Aris Mousoutzanis4. ‘A Butcher’s Shop where the Meat Still Moved’: Gothic Doubles, Organ Harvesting and Human Cloning - Sara Wasson5. Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos, or the Pleasures of Impurity - Laurence Davies6. Infected with Life: Neo-Supernaturalism and the Gothic Zombie - Gwyneth Peaty7. Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap Cycle - Emily AlderPart III: Gender and Genre8. The Superheated, Superdense Prose of David Conway: Gender and Subjectivity Beyond The Starry Wisdom - Mark P. Williams9. Spatialized Ontologies: Toni Morrison’s Science Fiction Traces in Gothic Spaces - Jerrilyn McGregory10. The Gothic Punk Milieu in Popular Narrative Fictions - Nickianne Moody11. Gothic Science Fiction in the Steampunk Graphic Novel: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Laura HiltonIndex

'This is a successful volume that will appeal to students and scholars of English-language sf. Many of the articles are excellent and will prove to be essential for scholars researching Gothic sf.'Elizabeth Berkebile McManus, Science Fiction Studies