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American Science fiction, English Science fiction, Future in literature, History and criticism, Science fiction, Theory, Utopias in literature, Future, The, in literature, Utopies dans la littérature, Science-fiction américaine, Futur dans la littérature, Histoire et critique, Théorie, Science-fiction, Science-fiction anglaise, Science fiction, history and criticism, Postmodernism, Science fiction, american--history and criticism, Science fiction, english--history and criticism, Science fiction--history and criticism--theory, etc, Future, the, in literature, Ps648.s3 j36 2005, 813/.0876209372Showing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?
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Table of Contents
Varieties of the utopian
The utopian enclave
Morus: the generic window
Utopian science versus utopian ideology
The great schism
How to fulfill a wish
The barrier of time
The unknowability thesis
The alien body
Utopia and its antinomies
Synthesis, irony, neutralization and the moment of truth
Journey into fear
The future as disruption
Fourier, or, Ontology and utopia
Generic discontinuities in SF: Brian Aldiss' Starship
World reduction in Le Guin
Progress versus utopia, or, Can we imagine the future?
Science fiction as a spatial genre: Vonda McIntyre's The exile waiting
The space of science fiction: narrative in Van Vogt
Longevity as class struggle
Philip K. Dick, in memoriam
After armageddon: character systems in Dr. Bloodmoney
History and salvation in Philip K. Dick
Fear and loathing in globalization
"If I can find one good city, I will spare the man": realism and utopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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