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As video gaming and gaming culture became more mainstream in the 1970s, science fiction authors began to incorporate aspects of each into their work. This study examines how media-fueled paranoia about video gaming--first emerging almost fifty years ago--still resonates in modern science fiction. The author reveals how negative stereotypes of gamers and gaming have endured in depictions of modern gamers in the media and how honest portrayals are still wanting, even in the "forward thinking" world of science fiction.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1: The Game and the Gamespace
2: Geekdom and the Gamer as Social Outcast
3: We're All Grown Up Now: The "Maturation" and Insularity of Video Gaming and Science Fiction
4: Gender and the Body Politic
5: Fighting "the Man": Against Governments and Corporations
6: Juvenile Science Fiction and the Future
Afterword: The Origins of Video Gaming in Science
Fiction Cinema
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
