Awards

• Winner of Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Special Recognition) 1998

Overview

This wry and highly readable investigation of the role of space travel in popular imagination looks at the way NASA has openly borrowed from the TV show Star Trek to reinforce its public standing. It also celebrates the work of a group of the show's fans who rewrite its storylines in porno-romance fanzines. Constance Penley advocates that scientific experimentation be accompanied by social and sexual experimentation, and devoted to exploring inner as well as outer space.

Full Product Details

Author:   Constance Penley
Publisher:   Verso Books
Imprint:   Verso Books
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 18.80cm
Weight:   0.224kg
ISBN:  

9780860916178

ISBN 10:   0860916170
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   17 June 1997
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Going into space with NASA/TREK is a good read and a good ride into uncharted regions of technoculture. In Pentley's hands, popular science is a place to launch an inquiry into moral cultural and political stakes in a world 'where no man has gone before'. - Donna Haraway NASA/TREK is happily both enjoyable and insightful, and explores some intricate correspondences between science and sex. Among other things it offers a new a persuasive analysis of a populist subgenre: 'slash' fiction . - Samuel R. Delany

Author Information

Constance Penley is Professor of Film and Media Studies and Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a founding editor of Camera Obscura and the author of The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis.

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