Veronica Hollinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 324124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veronica Hollinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veronica |
| FAMILY NAME | Hollinger |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLINGER V |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Anne Leckie’s Ancillary Justice
Reviewed by: Anne Leckie’s Ancillary Justice: A Critical Companion by David M. Higgins Veronica Hollinger Excellent Short-form Scholarship. David M. Higgins. Anne Leckie’s Ancillary Justice: A Critical Companion. Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon, 2023. vii+92 pp. $44.99 hc, $34.99 ebk. [End Page 486] Palgrave’s “A New Canon” is one of a growing number of very good scholarly series devoted to short critical stu…
Stephen Cave Kanta Dihal Sarah DillonAI Narratives
573 BOOKS IN REVIEW toward envisioning new modes of being as organic entities embedded within larger ecologies” (177). This shift actualizes Brown’s call through Black Utopias for the consideration of broad forms of speculation as an essential method of imagining and potentially enacting other ways of being that do not center or elevate the human species. Brown briefly applies her lens to a close reading of a scene in Alex Garland’s sf film Annih…
Darwinian Feminism and Early Science Fiction
433 BOOKS IN REVIEW which audiences are shown “in graphic detail ... the very real impact of inappropriate and reckless consumption” (83). She incorporates helpful film analysis into her readings and does so with verve, as in her elaboration of a scene in which clinical laboratory footage is juxtaposed with traditional film footage: “While [the doctor] watches the ‘clinical version,’ the version the audience sees is a more emotional version, a ve…
Speculative Realism and Science Fiction by Brian Willems
205 BOOKS IN REVIEW an untheorized shift in a larger structure of feeling that we are beginning to see now. Increasingly, Westfahl suggests, citizens of the twenty-first century have become socially withdrawn and emotionally reserved, more willing to watch others through digital media than to engage with them. Just as he scooped scientists on the satellite, Clarke predicted later social theorists’ work on the weakening of social ties, incorporati…
Wide-angle Allegories of the Present
The International Conference of Utopian and Science Fiction Studies, Beijing, China, 3–4 December 2016
“Some Real Mothers …”
Brilliant, Thought-Provoking, and Original
A History of the Future
Science Fiction and Postmodernism
Stories about the Future
It is not news that “science fiction” has come to refer in the past few decades not only to a popular narrative genre, but also to a kind of popular cultural discourse, a way of thinking about a sociopolitical present defined by radical and incessant technological transformation. William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition (2003) is both a realist novel set in 2002 and an sf novel set in the endless endtimes of the future-present. It brilliantly conveys…
Technoculture All the Way Down
Feminist theory and science fiction
Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy builds girl.(Anonymous, 'The Shortest Science Fiction Story Ever Written')
The Girls Who Were Plugged In
Doing It for Ourselves
Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouseTM
Old Dreams, New Stories
Contemporary Trends in Science Fiction Criticism, 1980-1999
This overview of sf criticism from 1980 to 1999 is divided into three sections: 1) “Mapping the Field,” which recommends some histories, genre studies, media sf studies, and reference guides; 2) “Sf Writers on Sf,” which calls attention to a number of non¬fiction and critical works by sf authors, as well as to some author interviews; 3) and “When It Changed,” which discusses a variety of both feminist and postmodern studies of sf. While this over…
Introduction
(Re)Reading Queerly
This essay aims to construct strategic intersections between queer theory and feminist theory, in order to suggest how queer theory's attention to issues of gender and sexuality can enrich feminist critical reading. Through detailed readings of C.L. Moore's "No Woman Born," James Tiptree Jr.'s "The Girl Who Was Plugged In," and Joanna Russ's "The Mystery of the Young Gentleman," I make use of some of the powerful insights of queer theory, such as…
The Technobody and its Discontents
Impressions from the Conference Circuit
Utopia, Science, Postmodernism, and Feminism
A New Alliance of Postmodernism and Feminist Speculative Fiction
The Charisma Leak”
(Re)Reading Queerly
This essay aims to construct strategic intersections between queer theory and feminist theory, in order to suggest how queer theory's attention to issues of gender and sexuality can enrich feminist critical reading. Through detailed readings of C.L. Moore's "No Woman Born," James Tiptree Jr.'s "The Girl Who Was Plugged In," and Joanna Russ's "The Mystery of the Young Gentleman," I make use of some of the powerful insights of queer theory, such as…
Stories about the Future
It is not news that “science fiction” has come to refer in the past few decades not only to a popular narrative genre, but also to a kind of popular cultural discourse, a way of thinking about a sociopolitical present defined by radical and incessant technological transformation. William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition (2003) is both a realist novel set in 2002 and an sf novel set in the endless endtimes of the future-present. It brilliantly conveys…
Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouseTM
The Vampire and the Alien
While SF often evokes in its readers a proverbial “sense of wonder,” it also works to “domesticate” narrative elements which, in different generic contexts, would be considered fantastic. In this essay, I examine the domestication of the figure of the vampire through its introduction into SF narratives. I analyze two texts in particular: Colin Wilson’s The Space Vampires (1976) and Jody Scott’s I, Vampire (1984). Each, in its own way, is a rewrit…
Deconstructing the Time Machine
Both SF and deconstruction are involved in the processes of defamiliarization, the former through its displacement of the social/political/cultural present, the latter through its attempts to expose the conventional nature of the “gestures of thought” of the Western metaphysical tradition. In addition, time travel itself always achives a deconstruction of certain classical notions about the nature and structure of time. It is first necessary to “…
The Vampire and the Alien
While SF often evokes in its readers a proverbial “sense of wonder,” it also works to “domesticate” narrative elements which, in different generic contexts, would be considered fantastic. In this essay, I examine the domestication of the figure of the vampire through its introduction into SF narratives. I analyze two texts in particular: Colin Wilson’s The Space Vampires (1976) and Jody Scott’s I, Vampire (1984). Each, in its own way, is a rewrit…
Feminist Science Fiction
Introduction
The Charisma Leak”
A New Alliance of Postmodernism and Feminist Speculative Fiction
Utopia, Science, Postmodernism, and Feminism
Impressions from the Conference Circuit
The Technobody and its Discontents
Contemporary Trends in Science Fiction Criticism, 1980-1999
This overview of sf criticism from 1980 to 1999 is divided into three sections: 1) “Mapping the Field,” which recommends some histories, genre studies, media sf studies, and reference guides; 2) “Sf Writers on Sf,” which calls attention to a number of non¬fiction and critical works by sf authors, as well as to some author interviews; 3) and “When It Changed,” which discusses a variety of both feminist and postmodern studies of sf. While this over…
Introduction
(Re)Reading Queerly
This essay aims to construct strategic intersections between queer theory and feminist theory, in order to suggest how queer theory's attention to issues of gender and sexuality can enrich feminist critical reading. Through detailed readings of C.L. Moore's "No Woman Born," James Tiptree Jr.'s "The Girl Who Was Plugged In," and Joanna Russ's "The Mystery of the Young Gentleman," I make use of some of the powerful insights of queer theory, such as…
Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouseTM
Old Dreams, New Stories
Doing It for Ourselves
Feminist theory and science fiction
Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy builds girl.(Anonymous, 'The Shortest Science Fiction Story Ever Written')
The Girls Who Were Plugged In
Technoculture All the Way Down
Stories about the Future
It is not news that “science fiction” has come to refer in the past few decades not only to a popular narrative genre, but also to a kind of popular cultural discourse, a way of thinking about a sociopolitical present defined by radical and incessant technological transformation. William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition (2003) is both a realist novel set in 2002 and an sf novel set in the endless endtimes of the future-present. It brilliantly conveys…
Science Fiction and Postmodernism
A History of the Future
Brilliant, Thought-Provoking, and Original
“Some Real Mothers …”
The International Conference of Utopian and Science Fiction Studies, Beijing, China, 3–4 December 2016
Wide-angle Allegories of the Present
Art (25 works) · Literature (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (14 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Art history (8 works) · History (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works)