| Description |
xii, 362 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Landscapes of change : science, science fiction, and advances in biology / Peter R. Bergethon -- Looking within: science fiction explores the future of "being human" / Bruce L. Rockwood -- Fractal fantasies of transformation : William Blake, Michael Moorcock, and the utilities of mythographic shamanism / Carter Kaplan -- Politicized dystopia and biomedical imaginaries : the case of "The Machine Stops" / Mark Decker -- Science fiction and politics : cyberpunk science fiction as political philosophy / Thomas Michaud -- Not lost in space : revising the politics of cold war womanhood in Judith Merril's science fiction / Lisa Yaszek -- Race, robots, and the law / Wanda Raiford -- Of starship troopers and refuseniks : war and militarism in U.S. science fiction, part 1 (1945-1974: Fordism) / Darko Suvin -- Science fiction narratives of mass destruction and the politics of national security / Doug Davis -- Truly American enterprise : Star Trek's post-9/11 politics / Lincoln Geraghty -- "But what of Lazarus?" : taking individuals seriously in the Star Trek saga / Paul Christopher Manuel -- Inverted perspectives on politics and morality in Battlestar Galactica / Woody Goulart and Wesley Y. Joe -- Body politic in Brazilian science fiction : implants and cyborgs / M. Elizabeth Ginway -- Brazilian metafiction : Paulo de Sousa Ramos's dystopian novella / Roberto de Sousa Causo -- Stagecoach in space : the legacy of Firefly / Fred Erisman -- Outside context problems : liberalism and the other in the work of Iain M. Banks / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson and James Heilman -- To the Perdido Street Station : the representation of revolution in China Miéville's Iron Council / Carl Freedman -- Socialist surrealism : China Miéville's New Crobuzon novels / Henry Farrell -- Science fiction, fantasy, and social critique : Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap into genre / Dennis Wilson Wise -- Politics, multiplicity, and mythical time in the oeuvre of Philip K. Dick / Sándor Klapcsik -- (Not yet) utopian dimension and the collapse of cyberpunk in Walter Mosley's Futureland : Nine Stories of an Imminent World / Sandy Rankin -- Last situation : Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and cultural critic Leslie Fiedler / Marleen S. Barr |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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Politics in literature.
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Utopias in literature.
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| Author |
Hassler, Donald M.
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Wilcox, Clyde, 1953-
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| LC no. |
2008006199 |
| ISBN |
9781570037368 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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1570037361 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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