{"product_id":"strange-hybrids-science-fiction-literary-fiction-and-the-contemporary-novel-9780813955964","title":"Strange Hybrids: Science Fiction, Literary Fiction, and the Contemporary Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow science fiction and literary fiction merge to represent today's social, political, and environmental concerns\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe future is now. Decades of accelerating technological, social, and environmental change have created a sense in the literary world that science fiction, rather than an augury of the future, may actually be the genre best equipped to describe the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrange Hybrids\u003c\/i\u003e examines the various ways contemporary novelists have adapted the structures and conventions of science fiction into literary depictions of our own world. Combining elements of both realism and speculative fiction, novelists such as Francis Spufford, Kim Stanley Robinson, Richard Powers, Jennifer Egan, and Colson Whitehead represent societies gripped by social, political, and ecological instability. Taking up questions of information science, climate change, medicine, economics, and more, their novels bridge the concerns of the sciences and the humanities to depict existing realities and imagine alternative ones. As descriptive as they are speculative, these novels demonstrate that science fiction offers an essential vocabulary for rethinking literature and its relationship to the contemporary world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marc Singer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Cultural Frames, Framing Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813955964","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867021193353,"sku":"9780813955964","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_5d04dd74-a4ab-4989-9341-7af4e8139a43.jpg?v=1793684726","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/strange-hybrids-science-fiction-literary-fiction-and-the-contemporary-novel-9780813955964","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}