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Subject(s)

• Archives in literature [Browse]
• Science fiction—History and criticism [Browse]

Series

• Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 65. [More in this series]
• Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 65 [More in this series]

Summary note

"We live in an information economy, data ever at our fingertips. In the pages of science fiction, powerful entities--governments and corporations--seek to use this archive to control society, enforcing conformity or turning citizens into passive consumers. Opposing them are protagonists fighting to liberate the collective mind from those who would enforce top-down control"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index.

Contents

• Fahrenheit 451 and the archive
• Rejecting archival embodiment in The handmaid's tale
• Disembodied embodiment of the archive in Gibson's Neuromancer and "Johnny Mnemonic"
• Genetic and technological embodiment of the archive in Bruce Sterling's Distraction
• Education through the digital archive in Neal Stephenson's Snow crash and The diamond age, or, a young lady's illustrated primer
• Epilogue: archival embodiment in Cory Doctorow's Down and out in the magic kingdom and Ernest Cline's Ready player one.

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ISBN

• 9781476672465 ((softcover ; : alk. paper))
• 1476672466 ((softcover ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2018041810

OCLC

1038249777

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