Chasing Aristotle's "probable impossibilities", Science Fantasy: Critical Explorations in Fiction and Film scrutinizes science fantasy, a hybrid genre that draws from both science fiction and fantasy. It delves into how science fantasy serves as a medium to shape the present and build a better future through memories and explores uncharted territories where science and imagination intersect. The eleven chapter of this volume challenge preconceptions and invites contemplation on the harmonious interplay between science fiction and the fantastical.
Cenk Tan is lecturer doctor at Pamukkale University in Denizli, Turkey. Nazan Yildiz Cicekci is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey. Elcin Parcaoglu is assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Pamukkale University in Denizli, Turkey.
Editors' Foreword: Cenk Tan, Elcin Parcaoglu and Nazan Yildiz Cicekci Introduction: Fantasy and Science Fiction: "A Rationalized Fantasy", Nazan Yildiz Cicekci Chapter One: Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End: A Critique of Free Will, Determinism and Predestination, Cenk Tan Chapter Two: Science Undertakes the Task: An Analysis of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children through Science Fantasy, Elcin Parcaoglu Chapter Three: Andre Norton's Androgynous Equality and Subverting Gender Roles and Hue of Witchcraft in Witch World, Nazan Yildiz Cicekci Chapter Four: In the Shadow of the Past and of the Source Text: I, Frankenstein as Adaptation and Americanization, Defne Ersin Tutan Chapter Five: From Mighty Warrior to Goofy Dad: Exploring Masculinities in the Thor Franchise, Sotirios Bampatzimopoulos Chapter Six: Mars and the Martians as Others in Philip K. Dick's Story and its Film Adaptation, Ercan Guerova Chapter Seven: Reimagining Marronage in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber, Keisha Allan Chapter Eight: Mothering in the Multiverse: Representations of Shifting Maternal Identities in Popular Science Fiction Films, Sarah Young Chapter Nine: The Science Fantasy of Michael Moorcock, Karol Jaroszewski Chapter Ten: Conscious Counter-Reality: Lexical Cohesion and Anti-Language in Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Michael Arthur Soares Chapter Eleven: Exploring Feminist Utopia: A Neo-Realist Analysis of The Feminist Utopia Project, Guel Varli Karaarslan About the Contributors
