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- Title
Alucinadas: Women Writers of Spanish Science Fiction.
- Authors
López-Pellisa, Teresa
- Abstract
Science fiction by women in Spain has received little attention, as demonstrated in Spanish sf anthologies of both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The anthology Alucinadas (2014, forthcoming in English as Spanish Women of Wonder) responds to this situation, and it includes work by twelve women writers (ten Spanish, two Argentinean). Alucinadas II (2016) features ten writers (eight Spanish, one Argentinean, and one Cuban). This article studies three thematic clusters found in these stories--ecocriticism and (de)colonization, sexuality(ies), and cyberspace--highlighting a wide range of social and political issues. Relevant motifs in science fiction, including dystopia/utopia, time travel, the preservation of a balanced ecosystem, cybersex, virtual reality, space travel, and planetary colonization, are reimagined with a new critical feminist perspective. Most of these stories feature societies in which natural and sexual diversity co-exist.
- Subjects
SPANISH science fiction; SCIENCE fiction; ECOCRITICISM; CYBERSPACE; SPACE tourism
- Publication
Science Fiction Studies, 2017, Vol 44, Issue 2, p308
- ISSN
0091-7729
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5621/sciefictstud.44.2.0308