Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction

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Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction is written by Sarah Falcus and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1350230685 (ISBN 10) and 9781350230682 (ISBN 13).

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.