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Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction, PDF eBook

Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction PDF

Edited by Sarah Falcus, Maricel Oro-Piqueras

Part of the Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life series

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Focusing on the contemporary period, this book brings together critical age studies and contemporary science fiction to establish the centrality of age and ageing in dystopian, speculative and science-fiction imaginaries.

Analysing texts from Europe, North America and South Asia, as well as television programmes and films, the contributions range from essays which establish genre-based trends in the representation of age and ageing, to very focused studies of particular texts and concerns.

As a whole, the volume probes the relationship between speculative/science fiction and our understanding of what it is to be a human in time: the time of our own lives and the times of both the past and the future.

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