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A definite look at the state of science fiction studies today that surveys the field from Hugo Gernsbach to the present.
List of contents
Acknowledgments vi
Contributors vii
Introduction: Learning from Other Worlds / Patrick Parrinder 1
Part I. Science Fiction and Utopia: Theory and Politics
Before the
Novum: The Prehistory of Science Fiction Criticism / Edward Jones 19
Revisiting Suvin's Poetics of Science Fiction / Patrick Parrinder 36
"Look into the dark": On Dystopia and the
Novum / Tom Moylan 51
Science Fiction and Utopia: A Historico-Philosophical Overview / Carl Freedman 72
Society After the Revolution: The Blueprints for the Forthcoming Socialist Society published by the Leaders of the Second International / Marc Angenot 98
Part II. Science Fiction it its Social, Cultural, and Philosophical Contexts
From the Images of Science to Science Fiction / Gérard Klein 119
Estranged Invaders:
The War of the Worlds / Peter Fitting 127
"A part of the . . . family[?]": John Wyndham's
The Midwich Cuckoos as Estranged Autobiography / David Ketterer 146
Labyrinth, Double and Mask in the Science Fiction of Stanislaw Lem / Rafail Nudelman 178
"We're at the start of a new ball game and that's why we're all real nervous": Or, Cloning—Technological Cognition Reflects Estrangement from Women / Marleen S. Barr 193
"If I find one good city I will spare the man": Realism and Utopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy / Fredric Jameson 208
Afterword: With Sober, Estranged Eyes / Darko Suvin 233
Darko Suvin: Checklist of Printed Items that Concern Science Fiction 272
Bibliography 291
Index 307
About the author
Patrick Parrinder, ed.
