Science Fiction and Postmodern Fiction

The Author: Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz is Akademische Oberraetin at Ruhr-Universität in Bochum, Germany. She received her Ph.D. in English for a dissertation on Shakespeare's sonnets. Besides writing articles for professional journals on Shakespeare's plays, Restoration Drama, Afro-American Literature, and Stephen Crane, she also published German translations of two Shakespearean plays. Dr. Puschmann-Nalenz has also taught at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO., the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, and Texas A & M University, College Station, TX.

"This is the first full-length study of the interrelations between science fiction and postmodern literature. A useful book for scholars interested in science fiction as well as scholars in avant-garde literature written from the time of Borges up to the present." (Ulrich Broich, University of Munich)
"This book increasingly turns out to be a comprehensive reflection of our contemporary notion of reality and of the role played by the concept of fiction in the explanation of our reality. The clarity and logic of Mrs. Puschmann-Nalenz' argumentation in discussing this complex subject matter are remarkable." (Heide Ziegler, Universität Stuttgart)
"The demanding, but nevertheless' very clearly written study is conceived as a theoretically well-founded comparison. Since also Spanish and French literary texts are analyzed a reader with interests in 'Romance literatures' and comparatistics will equally profit from this study." (Ilse Nolting-Hauff, University of Munich)
"...a study to admire for its early identification of the interactions between a popular genre and a contemporary aesthetic which, between them, have produced so much fascinating fiction in such a relatively short span of time." (VH, Science-Fiction Studies)