<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Hi all.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The book Dave G described below is the book I had suggested to read this month.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thankfully it is not a Marxist treatise.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">T.O.D.</div></div><div><br><div class="elided-text">On Jun 8, 2022 4:05 PM, "David G. Grubbs" <dggrubbs@gmail.com> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'tahoma' , sans-serif">There are only two books that could be confused for each other: <i>Science Fiction</i> (2021), and <i>Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed</i> (2014). According to her UC-Riverside page:</div><div style="font-family:'tahoma' , sans-serif"><br></div><span style="font-family:'tahoma' , sans-serif"></span>Sherryl Vint’s research focuses on speculative fiction, especially relationships with science and technology. She works broadly with<span style="font-family:'tahoma' , sans-serif"></span>in a Marxist cultural studies tradition. She has published five books: <i>Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed</i> (2014), <i>The Wire</i> (2013), <i>Animal Alterity</i> (2010), <i>Bodies of Tomorrow</i> (2007), and with <span style="font-family:'tahoma' , sans-serif"></span>Mark Bould, The <i>Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction</i> (2011). She has also edited or co-edited several volumes and speci<span style="font-family:'tahoma' , sans-serif"></span>al issues, including most recently <i>Science Fiction</i> <span style="font-family:'tahoma' , sans-serif">(2021) </span>and <i>Cultural Theory: A Reader</i> (2015), a special issues of <i>Paradoxa on The Futures Industry</i> (2015) and, most recently, <i>After the Human: <span style="font-family:'tahoma' , sans-serif"></span>Culture, Theory</i> and <i>Criticism in the Twenty-First Century</i> (2021).<div><br><span style="font-family:'tahoma' , sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:'tahoma' , sans-serif"></span><div><div style="font-family:'tahoma' , sans-serif"></div></div><div><div style="font-family:'tahoma' , sans-serif">The one I assume we are reading is the only one available from MIT Press, the recent <i>Science Fiction</i> (2021) that is a $15.95 207-page (though without the Acknowledgments, End Notes, Glossary, Further Reading and Index, it contains 168 pages) very tiny paperback book (smaller than mass market) that I at this moment hold in my hand.</div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:'tahoma' , sans-serif">I haven't read it yet, but I'm hoping the "Marxist" reference is a terse external opinion and not the theme or thesis of the work we have to read.</div><div style="font-family:'tahoma' , sans-serif"><br></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="elided-text"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 2:12 PM Wesley Brodsky <<a href="mailto:wesbrodsky@alum.mit.edu">wesbrodsky@alum.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb( 204 , 204 , 204 );padding-left:1ex">There are several books by Sherryl Vint with “Science Fiction” in the title. <br>
Are they all the same?<br>
-Wes<br>
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