Scotland as Science Fiction

By Caroline McCracken-Flesher

Book Overview

Scots like Iain N. Banks and Ken MacLeod lead in a futuristic tradition, for from MacDonald, Barrie, and Stevenson onwards, Scots have been speculating in ways derived from their unique circumstances: lacking political power, they imagine future spaces and different places--with a twist. Nineteenth-century thermodynamics (theorized in Scotland), Celtic Otherworlds, and a Scotland always on the "other side" of history open unusual futures for Mitchison, Spark, Lindsay, Mitchell, MadDiarmid, Morgan, Crumey, Fitt, and Gray.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161148426X
• ISBN13: 9781611484267
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"