Jason Barr is an associate professor at Blue Ridge Community College. His work has appeared in African American Review, Explicator, The Journal of Continuing Higher Education, and The Journal of Caribbean Literatures, among others. He lives in Weyers Cave, Virginia. Series editor Matthew Wilhelm Kapell teaches American studies, anthropology, and writing at Pace University in New York.

“Thoughtful, judicious, and enhanced with chapter notes and an index, Video Gaming in Science Fiction is a welcome addition”—Midwest Book Review.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1: The Game and the Gamespace2: Geekdom and the Gamer as Social Outcast3: We’re All Grown Up Now: The “Maturation” and Insularity of Video Gaming and Science Fiction4: Gender and the Body Politic5: Fighting “the Man”: Against Governments and Corporations6: Juvenile Science Fiction and the FutureAfterword: The Origins of Video Gaming in Science Fiction CinemaChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

Jason Barr is an associate professor at Blue Ridge Community College. His work has appeared in African American Review, Explicator, The Journal of Continuing Higher Education, and The Journal of Caribbean Literatures, among others. He lives in Weyers Cave, Virginia. Series editor Matthew Wilhelm Kapell teaches American studies, anthropology, and writing at Pace University in New York.

“Thoughtful, judicious, and enhanced with chapter notes and an index, Video Gaming in Science Fiction is a welcome addition”—Midwest Book Review.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1: The Game and the Gamespace2: Geekdom and the Gamer as Social Outcast3: We’re All Grown Up Now: The “Maturation” and Insularity of Video Gaming and Science Fiction4: Gender and the Body Politic5: Fighting “the Man”: Against Governments and Corporations6: Juvenile Science Fiction and the FutureAfterword: The Origins of Video Gaming in Science Fiction CinemaChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

Jason Barr is an associate professor at Blue Ridge Community College. His work has appeared in African American Review, Explicator, The Journal of Continuing Higher Education, and The Journal of Caribbean Literatures, among others. He lives in Weyers Cave, Virginia. Series editor Matthew Wilhelm Kapell teaches American studies, anthropology, and writing at Pace University in New York.

“Thoughtful, judicious, and enhanced with chapter notes and an index, Video Gaming in Science Fiction is a welcome addition”—Midwest Book Review.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1: The Game and the Gamespace2: Geekdom and the Gamer as Social Outcast3: We’re All Grown Up Now: The “Maturation” and Insularity of Video Gaming and Science Fiction4: Gender and the Body Politic5: Fighting “the Man”: Against Governments and Corporations6: Juvenile Science Fiction and the FutureAfterword: The Origins of Video Gaming in Science Fiction CinemaChapter NotesBibliographyIndex