ABSTRACT Galactic Tours is a 94-page, large format book with full colour illustrations, a collaboration between the Belfast science fiction author Bob Shaw and the English space artist David Hardy. By the time the book appeared in 1981, Shaw had left Belfast to escape the Troubles, but this article attempts to appraise the text through the prism of Irish Studies, tracing local sources for the descriptions of Shaw’s fantastical worlds. The article proposes that Irish science fiction is a fertile area for Irish Studies, producing as it does texts that take part in a globalised culture, while estranging aspects of Irish society, looking to the past to create its futures.

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“舒适加兴奋”：鲍勃·肖和大卫·哈代的银河之旅中的殖民未来

摘要 《银河之旅》是一本 94 页的大幅面书，带有全彩色插图，是贝尔法斯特科幻小说作家鲍勃·肖和英国太空艺术家大卫·哈迪的合作作品。到这本书于 1981 年出版时，Shaw 已经离开贝尔法斯特以逃避麻烦，但本文试图通过爱尔兰研究的棱镜来评估文本，追踪当地资料来源以描述 Shaw 的奇幻世界。这篇文章提出，爱尔兰科幻小说是爱尔兰研究的沃土，它的创作与参与全球化文化的文本一样，同时疏远爱尔兰社会的各个方面，回顾过去以创造未来。