McFarlane, A. (2016) Breaking the cycle of the Golden Age: Jack Glass and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. In: Callow Jr., C. and McFarlane, A. (eds.) Adam Roberts: Critical Essays. Series: Gylphi contemporary writers: critical essays, 4. Gylphi: Canterbury, pp. 83-103. ISBN 9781780240428
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Abstract
McFarlane focuses on the ways in which Adam Roberts' novel Jack Glass overcomes the conventions of Golden Age science fiction by reading the novel alongside Asimov’s Foundation novels. McFarlane finds that the move from Asimov’s Foundation to Jack Glass’s galaxy is a move from Newtonian physics to chaos theory, a move which demands attention be paid to small phenomenon, such as individual humans rather than ‘the masses’. McFarlane argues that this move produces a more democratic view of the galaxy, one that demands revolution to escape the exploitative hierarches under which Jack Glass lives.
| Item Type: | Book Sections |
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| Keywords: | Adam Roberts, Isaac Asimov, science fiction, Golden Age, chaos theory. |
| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Mcfarlane, Dr Anna |
| Authors: | McFarlane, A. |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism P Language and Literature > PR English literature P Language and Literature > PS American literature |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature |
| Publisher: | Gylphi |
| ISBN: | 9781780240428 |
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