Science Fantasy

Cenk Tan is associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Pamukkale University, Turkey.Elçin Parçaoglu is assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Pamukkale University, Turkey.Nazan Yildiz Çiçekçi is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey.

• Editors’ Foreword: Cenk Tan, Elçin Parçaoglu and Nazan Yildiz ÇiçekçiFantasy and Science Fiction: “A Rationalized Fantasy”, Nazan Yildiz ÇiçekçiChapter One: Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End: A Critique of Free Will, Determinism and Predestination, Cenk TanChapter Two: Science Undertakes the Task: An Analysis of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children through Science Fantasy, Elçin ParçaogluChapter Three: Andre Norton’s Androgynous Equality and Subverting Gender Roles and Hue of Witchcraft in Witch World, Nazan Yildiz ÇiçekçiChapter Four: In the Shadow of the Past and of the Source Text: I, Frankenstein as Adaptation and Americanization, Defne Ersin TutanChapter Five: From Mighty Warrior to Goofy Dad: Exploring Masculinities in the Thor Franchise, Sotirios BampatzimopoulosChapter Six: Mars and the Martians as Others in Philip K. Dick’s Story and its Film Adaptation, Ercan GürovaChapter Seven: Reimagining Marronage in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber, Keisha AllanChapter Eight: Mothering in the Multiverse: Representations of Shifting Maternal Identities in Popular Science Fiction Films, Sarah YoungChapter Nine: The Science Fantasy of Michael Moorcock, Karol JaroszewskiChapter Ten: Conscious Counter-Reality: Lexical Cohesion and Anti-Language in Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Michael Arthur SoaresChapter Eleven: Exploring Feminist Utopia: A Neo-Realist Analysis of The Feminist Utopia Project, Gül Varli KaraarslanAbout the Contributors

Scholarly attention to science fantasy is long overdue. The hybrid genre can provide insights into both fantasy and science fiction as well as offering its own perspectives on gender, power, perception, and, as Douglas Adams would suggest, the meaning of life. The editors of this volume have gathered an important and engaging set of essays on key figures in the development of science fantasy literature, like Andre Norton and Michael Moorcock, and on its emergence into forms ranging from feminist utopias to superhero movies.