Following scholarship on gender in technological know-how fiction, this publication explores the boundaries of contemplating age as a social building, positing that an acknowledgement of elderly our bodies unavoidably alterations the best way we learn either age and technological know-how fiction. the quantity employs modern medical psychology, the biopsychosocial version, to illustrate that age is a crucial and overlooked subject proper to the research of speculative fiction. whereas gender bargains a vocabulary, the biopsychosocial strategy offers a style to think about age (and gender) as an embodied synthesis of physicality, psychology, and social setting. This revered version of medical psychology permits a special and leading edge lens during which to learn age and the physique in literature. Thiess bargains readings of proven sf classics together with Octavia Butler’s Parable sequence; Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game; and cyberpunk authors reminiscent of Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, and Neal Stephenson, additionally exploring extra mainstream speculative works together with Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight sequence and Joss Whedon’s Firefly/Serenity. vacationing issues corresponding to care paintings, sexuality, recreation, and the army in those works, the booklet demonstrates that acknowledging a extra totally embodied age isn't just invaluable for the person topic, yet also will enhance our knowing of different social different types, together with gender and race. Taking a constructive—rather than adversarial—stance, this booklet doesn't purely query how a lot you possibly can ethically and responsibly "bend" age, yet indicates there's a good deal to benefit while one explores these limits.