Gerry Canavan Gerry Canavan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6094942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerry Canavan Gerry Canavan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerry Canavan Gerry |
| FAMILY NAME | Canavan |
| SIGNATURE | CANAVAN G C G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Research in the Octavia E. Butler Archive
The Principle of Hope in the Anthropocene
You Can't Trust Planets”
CFP
A Dread Mystery, Compelling Adoration”
Using research undertaken at the Olaf Stapledon archive at the University of Liverpool, this article explores the tension between cosmopolitan optimism and cosmic pessimism that structures Stapledon's 1937 novel Star Maker, and asks whether the novel succeeds in solving the philosophical problems that first spurred Stapledon to write it. I conclude, unhappily, that it does not: while an impressive achievement, and despite a surface optimism, the …
Science Fiction and/as Theology
Reinventing the Wheel
Missing Octavia
Superseding Cyberpunk
Keen, Sober, and Smart
Decolonizing the Future
A Literature of Transgression and Subversion
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Decolonizing the Future
A Literature of Transgression and Subversion
Superseding Cyberpunk
Keen, Sober, and Smart
Missing Octavia
Reinventing the Wheel
A Dread Mystery, Compelling Adoration”
Using research undertaken at the Olaf Stapledon archive at the University of Liverpool, this article explores the tension between cosmopolitan optimism and cosmic pessimism that structures Stapledon's 1937 novel Star Maker, and asks whether the novel succeeds in solving the philosophical problems that first spurred Stapledon to write it. I conclude, unhappily, that it does not: while an impressive achievement, and despite a surface optimism, the …
Science Fiction and/as Theology
You Can't Trust Planets”
CFP
Research in the Octavia E. Butler Archive
The Principle of Hope in the Anthropocene
Art (9 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art history (2 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Adoration (1 works) · Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (1 works)