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1 online resource (380 p.) |
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Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Part One: The Desire Called Utopia -- Introduction: Utopia Now -- 1. Varieties of the Utopian -- 2. The Utopian Enclave -- 3. Morus: The Generic Window -- 4. Utopian Science versus Utopian Ideology -- 5. The Great Schism -- 6. How to Fulfill a Wish -- 7. The Barrier of Time -- 8. The Unknowability Thesis -- 9. The Alien Body -- 10. Utopia and its Antinomies -- 11. Synthesis, Irony, Neutralization and the Moment of Truth -- 12. Journey into Fear -- 13. The Future as Disruption |
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Part Two: As Far as Thought Can Reach -- 1. Fourier, or, Ontology and Utopia -- 2. Generic Discontinuities in SF: Brian Aldiss' Starship -- 3. World Reduction in Le Guin -- 4. Progress versus Utopia, or, Can We Imagine the Future? -- 5. Science Fiction as a Spatial Genre: Vonda McIntyre's The Exile Waiting -- 6. The Space of Science Fiction: Narrative in Van Vogt -- 7. Longevity as Class Struggle -- 8. Philip K. Dick, In Memoriam -- 9. After Armageddon: Character Systems in Dr Bloodmoney -- 10. History and Salvation in Philip K. Dick -- 11. Fear and Loathing in Globalization |
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12. "If I Can Find One Good City, I Will Spare the Man": Realism and Utopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Science fiction, American -- History and criticism
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Science fiction, English -- History and criticism
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Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Utopias in literature.
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Future, The, in literature.
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utopian literature.
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Future, The, in literature
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Science fiction, American
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Science fiction, English
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Utopias in literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1789602998 |
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9781789602999 |
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