Queer Theory & Futurism

[Mark Kohut]

Alice,

I have actually read Wright's A Scientific Romance: A Novel which, again greatly oversimplifying, would be a title for a large part of "Against the Day" including the concept, novel....which does not mean it is not also a romance. 

mark

--- On Sun, 2/21/10, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Queer Theory & Futurism
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, February 21, 2010, 1:39 PM
> Starting in the late 1970s, the term
> began to be used again, this time
> for eccentric, usually (but not always) British science
> fiction that
> intentionally reflects a Victorian or Edwardian outlook.
> Christopher
> Priest (a member of the H. G. Wells Society) has, for
> example, used or
> alluded to the term "scientific romance" in some of his
> novels. The
> contemporary use of the term also includes authors who,
> like the
> original "Scientific Romance writers", do not consider
> themselves to
> be science-fiction or scientific-romance authors. English
> historian
> Ronald Wright, for instance, wrote the Wells pastiche (or
> homage) A
> Scientific Romance: A Novel.[1]
> 
> The modern use of the term might superficially seem related
> to the
> rise of the "Steampunk" sub-genre, but there are notable
> differences
> between the two: modern "scientific romances" typically
> take a
> distinctly more nostalgic or romanticized view of the era
> than
> Steampunk, and also often involve the future rather than
> the past,
> albeit a future based on Victorian or Edwardian
> sensibilities. Modern
> Scientific Romances are not of any form of "punk" or
> cyberpunk.
> 
> from wiki scientific romance.
>