The International Conference of Utopian and Science Fiction Studies, Beijing, China, 3–4 December 2016

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 406
Author(s):  
Veronica Hollinger
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Science Fiction Studies ◽  
Beijing China

Sideways in Time

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Contemporary Fiction ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Current Form ◽  
Alternate History ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Science Fiction Studies

This book is the first collection of scholarly essays on alternate history in over a decade and features contributions from a mixture of major figures and rising stars in the field of science fiction studies. Alternate history is a genre of fiction which, although connected to the genres of utopian, dystopian and science fiction, has its own rich history and lineage. With roots in the writings of ancient Rome, alternate history matured into something close to its current form in the essays and novels of the nineteenth century. In more recent years a number of highly acclaimed novels have been published as alternate histories, by authors ranging from science fiction bestsellers to Pulitzer Prize-winning literary icons. The success and popularity of the genre is reflected in its success on television with original concepts being developed alongside adaptations of iconic texts. This important collection of essays seeks to redress an imbalance between the importance and quality of alternate history texts and the available scholarship and critical readings of texts, providing chapters by both leading scholars in the field and rising stars. The chapters in this book acknowledge the long and distinctive history of the genre whilst also revelling in its vitality, adaptability, and contemporary relevance, with many of the chapters discussing late-twentieth and early-twenty-first century contemporary fiction texts which have received little or no sustained critical analysis elsewhere in print.

Science Fiction Worlding and Speculative Sex

Old Futures ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 129-163
Author(s):  
Alexis Lothian
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Public Sex ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
The Future ◽  
Queer Performance ◽  
Science Fiction Studies

Chapter 4 extends part 2’s analysis of queered and gendered black futurities to the realm of racialized queer masculinity, focusing on the work of Samuel R. Delany. His writing provides a bridge between the discourse of “world-making” developed in utopian theories of queer performance and the idea of “world-building” common in science fiction studies. Delany’s fiction shows how the narrative tactics of science fiction, a genre whose most popular literary and media versions have tended to proffer timelines reliant on unmitigated heterosexuality, can turn against assumptions that the future must be straight, or at least arrived at through heterosexual reproductive logics. In Dhalgren (1974) and Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand (1984), speculative iterations of 1970s and 1980s public sex cultures use genre tropes to reimagine sexual and racial temporalities in response both to the histories of enslavement and to the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.

International Conference on Gears 2019

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Stressed Volume ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
International Conference ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Surface Durability ◽  
Tooth Flank ◽  
Plastic Gears ◽  
Beijing China

Der Bericht ist ausschließlich als PDF-Dokument erschienen! Drei Konferenzen in einer, auf 1.874 Seiten finden Sie jede Menge aller neueste Informationen zum Thema Gears. Die beiden anderen Konferenzen waren: 3rd International Conference on High Performance Plastic Gears 2019 und 3rd International Conference on Gear Production 2019 Achtung: Dieser VDI-Bericht ist ausschließlich als PDF-Datei auf CD-ROM lieferbar! Auszug aus dem 22-seitigen Inhaltsverzeichnis: Foreword 1 K. Stahl, Technische Universität München (TUM), Garching International Conference on Gears 2019 Flank strength Influence of gear surface roughness on pitting and micropitting life 3 E. Bergstedt, Prof. U. Olofsson, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden; J. Lin, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China; P. Lindholm, ABB Corporate Research, Västerås, Sweden Influence of stressed volume of tooth flank on the surface durability 15 A. Kubo, Research Institute for Applied Sciences, Ooicho, Kyoto, Japan Transfer of the tooth fl...

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