Alternate World Building: Retrofuturism and Retrophilia in Steampunk and Dieselpunk Narratives by Iolanda Ramos

“…This essay draws on William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s steampunk and alternate history novel 'The Difference Engine' (1990) and Len Deighton’s dieselpunk and alternate history thriller 'SS-GB' (1978) for the purpose of discussing the blurring of genres within speculative fiction and addressing retrofuturism and retrophilia within an alternate world building framework. …”
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Gore ot uma di Olga Tobreluts: la metamorfosi di un classico by Redaelli, Maria

“…But as the video begins it is suddenly clear it is not just merely a mise en scène. As Bruce Sterling pointed out it results to be more appropriate referring to it as an act of ‘mutation’. …”
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The Magic Realist Unconscious: Twain, Yamashita and Jackson by Takayuki Tatsumi

“…A Close reading of this metafiction composed in a way reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges, Stanislaw Lem and Bruce Sterling will enable us to rediscover not only the role conjoined twins played in cultural history, but also the reason why Yamashita had to feature them once again in her novel <i>I Hotel</i> (2010) whose plot centers around the Asian American civil rights movement between the 1960s and the 1970s. …”
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