The Production of Canon: A Pointless Argument?
An amusing discussion took place last week in one of my classes (the SF/utopia one). We were talking about Tom Moylan’s Scrapes of Untainted Sky and Luckhurst’s Science Fiction and how Luckhurst’s one-page claim about the awful practice of canon production in key theoretical texts (Suvin’s Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, Carl Freedman’s Critical Theory and Science Fiction, […]
Science Fiction Criticism: Inside vs. Outside
One of my colleagues recently asked me what I thought about the academic texts on science fiction we had been reading over the semester. Specifically, she was curious about my opinion on the inside and the outside, and who, more or less, has the “right” to comment upon the genre. Before I get into that, […]