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Biopunk Dystopias

Contributor(s): Schmeink (Author)

ISBN: 9781781383766

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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Pub Date: December 9, 2016

Dewey: 809.38762

LCCN: 2016478578

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.80" H x 9.30" L x 6.20" W ( 1.25 lbs) 279 pages

Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies

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Biopunk Dystopias analyses 21st century cultural anxieties and dystopian visions about the consequences of biotechnology, especially genetic engineering, as part of contemporary social reality.

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'Biopunk Dystopias is a strong contribution to twenty-first-century science fiction studies and studies of dystopian fiction, but also will interest critics invested in studies of literary and filmic representations of late capitalism, biopower, and necropolitics.'
The Year's Work in English Studies

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