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245 00 $aPolitical science fiction /$cedited by Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox.
260 $aColumbia, S.C. :$bUniversity of South Carolina Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $aviii, 256 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Politics, Art, Collaboration /$rDonald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox --$g1.$tThe Politics of Prophecy /$rFrederik Pohl --$g2.$tSwift, Pohl, and Kornbluth: Publicists Anatomize Newness /$rDonald M. Hassler --$g3.$tH. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia as a Work in Progress /$rJune Deery --$g4.$tState, Heterotopia: The Political Imagination in Heinlein, Le Guin, and Delany /$rNeil Easterbrook --$g5.$tThe I-We Dilemma and a "Utopian Unconscious" in Wells's When the Sleeper Wakes and Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven /$rCarol S. Franko --$g6.$tNo Future! Cyberpunk, Industrial Music, and the Aesthetics of Postmodern Disintegration /$rPatrick Novotny --$g7.$tPrince versus Prophet: Machiavellianism in Frank Herbert's Dune Epic /$rPeter Minowitz --$g8.$tFeminist Utopian Fiction and the Possibility of Social Critique /$rJosephine Carubia Glorie --$g9.$tGoverning the Alien Nation: The Comparative Politics of Extraterrestrials /$rClyde Wilcox --
505 80 $g10.$tReality Transfigured: The Latin American Situation as Reflected in Its Science Fiction /$rIngrid Kreksch --$g11.$t"In Every Revolution, There Is One Man with a Vision": The Governments of the Future in Comparative Perspective /$rPaul Christopher Manuel --$g12.$tMilitary, Democracy, and the State in Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers /$rEverett Carl Dolman --$g13.$tGender Identity in Star Trek /$rKathy E. Ferguson, Gilad Ashkenazi and Wendy Schultz --$g14.$t"We Owe It to Them to Interfere:" Star Trek and U.S. Statecraft in the 1960s and the 1990s /$rMark P. Lagon.
520 $aPolitical Science Fiction examines the close relationship between politics and science fiction and shows how much of the former is grounded in the latter. Sixteen science fiction writers and critics join forces to offer an anthology that explores a diversity of futuristic literature, from the novels of H. G. Wells to Star Trek: The Next Generation, and a spectrum of ideas, from the libertarianism of Robert A. Heinlein to the feminism of Ursula K. LeGuin and Sheri S. Tepper.
520 8 $aAs the science fiction writer Frederik Pohl observes in the lead essay, the contributors collectively find science fiction to be either implicitly or explicitly political by its very nature.
520 8 $aEqually divided between essays that analyze science fiction texts as literature and essays that discuss them as models of political science theory and practice, the collection reveals the propensity of fiction writers to center their works on particular governmental structures. Other essays reveal the ways in which science fiction speaks to the study of international relations, such as the support for realist ideology found in the enormous genre of interspecies war novels and stories.
520 8 $aOf particular interest to viewers of Star Trek, three essays deal specifically with the depiction of alien governments, gender identity, and isolationism in both the original and the new television series.
650 0 $aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118631
650 0 $aPolitics in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104473
700 1 $aHassler, Donald M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82009567
700 1 $aWilcox, Clyde,$d1953-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86856991
852 00 $bglx$hPN3433.8$i.P65 1997g