Patrick Parrinder is Professor of English at the University of Reading, England. His previous books include Authors and Authority: English and American Criticism, 1750–1990 and Shadows of the Future: H. G. Wells, Science Fiction, and Prophecy.
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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
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
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