SPACE
Laurie Taylor visits two very different worlds - first there is the final frontier - outer space.Ìý
and , best-selling science fiction writers and critics of the cyber age discuss why our fascination with the newly wired world seems to have gone hand in hand with an abandonment of the old dream of inter-planetary travel.
ANN SUMMER’S PARTIES
Laurie Taylor is taken behind the scenes at a girls’ night out by , a sociologist who’s been studying the world of Ann Summer’s parties.
These occasions are the historic successors to Tupperware parties.Ìý They aim to persuade the party-goers to buy sexy lingerie whilst having fun, playing risqué games and getting away from it all. As Laurie will be hearing, the occasions are a fascinating mixture of ribaldry and rules.
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Professor and Chair of Communication and Media Studies at in New York City and award winning science fiction writer
Former President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (1998-2001)
Founder of Connected Education, Inc which offers graduate courses on the internet
Realspace – The Fate of Physical Presence in the Digital Age, On and Off the Planet
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN 0415277434
Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN 0415249910
Science Fiction writer
In 1999 he was the recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Pilgrim Award for his contributions to Science Fiction scholarship
Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the
Latex and Lingerie: Shopping for Pleasure at Ann Summers Parties
Berg Publishers
ISBN 1 85973 698 x
Bisexuality: A Critical Reader
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN 0415166608
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