Scotland in Space

Creative Visions and Critical Reflections on Scotlands Space

Deborah Scott, Simon Malpas, Ken MacLeod

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English

Miscellaneous
07 November 2019

Science fiction; Astronomy, space & time; Space science; Short Stories Sci-Fi; Space; Space Exploration

With a foreword from Ken MacLeod Contributions from:

Pippa Goldschmidt Laura Lam Russell Jones Alastair Bruce Sean McMahon Elsa Bouet Beth Biller Tacye Phillipson Catherine Heymans Matjaz Vidmar Afterword from Colin R McInnes Scotland has big plans for its space industry in the next decade: opening Europe's first orbital spaceport, expanding further its satellite research and manufacturing industry, and developing a GBP4 billion space industry by 2030. Astronomy and Astrophysics have been important fields of study in Scottish universities since the eighteenth century, and world-leading research continues to be produced here today. And in contemporary Scottish literature, science-fiction writing is flourishing.

Scotland in Space: Creative Visions and Critical Reflections on Scotland's Space Futures brings together these three strands to generate dialogues between literary authors, natural and social scientists and scholars working in the humanities, to envision some of Scotland's potential space futures.

The book comprises three sections, in each of which an original piece of science fiction is accompanied by essays that respond to the ideas the story evokes. The essays, written by specialist scholars and practitioners working closely with the literary authors, identify, explore and comment upon the physical, social and cultural possibilities and potentials evoked in the science fiction.

These cross-disciplinary discussions speculate about the ways in which research and innovation currently taking place in Scotland might change our sense of the possible futures of this country, this world and, perhaps, other worlds.

By: Ken MacLeod
Edited by: Deborah Scott, Simon Malpas
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 336g
ISBN: 9781999333157
ISBN 10: 1999333152
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 07 November 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Scotland in Space: Creative Visions and Critical Reflections on Scotlands Space

Scotland in Space refreshingly captures the many contributions in scientific, science-fictional and artistic studies from one of the world's top three per capita contributors to astronomy and space research - another welcome indicator that small is beautiful against the current Mega-power trends. --John Campbell Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland