Staff profile

Mr Chris Palmer

Associate Professor

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

Humanities2, room 332, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons-Sydney), MA (LaTrobe), B.Phil (Oxford).

Area of study

English
Creative Arts

Recent publications

“Philip K. Dick” in A Companion to Science Fiction, edited by David Seed, Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, 389-397.

 

“Generation Starships and After: ‘Never Anywhere To Go But In’?”, Extrapolation, volume 44 number 3, Fall 2003, 311-330.

 

“Mona Lisa Overdrive and the Prosthetic”, Science Fiction Studies, 93, (vol. 31, part 2), July 2004, 227-242.

 

“The Teeth of the New Cockatoo: Mutation and Trauma in Greg Egan’s Teranesia”, in World Weavers: Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005, 205-214.

 

“Big Dumb Objects in Science Fiction: Sublimity, Banality, and Modernity”, Extrapolation, volume 47 number 1, 2006, 95-111.

 

“Pattern Recognition: ‘None of what we do here is ever really private’”, Science Fiction Studies, 100 (vol. 33, part 3), November 2006, 473-482.

 

“Saving the City in China Miéville’s Bas-Lag Novels”, Extrapolation, volume 50 number 2, 2009, 224-238.