| Edition |
Pbk. ed. |
| Description |
viii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The politics of prophecy / Frederik Pohl -- Swift, Pohl, and Kornbluth : publicists anatomize newness / Donald M. Hassler -- H.G. Wells's A modern utopia as a work in progress / June Deery -- State, heterotropia : the political imagination in Heinlein, Le Guin, and Delany / Neil Easterbrook -- The I-We dilemma and a "utopian unconscious" in Wells's When the sleeper wakes and Le Guin's The lathe of heaven / Carol S. Franko -- No future! cyberpunk, industrial music, and the aesthetics of postmodern disintegration / Patrick Novotny -- Prince versus prophet : Machiavellianism in Frank Herbert's Dune epic / Peter Minowitz -- Feminist utopian fiction and the possibility of social critique / Josephine Carubia Glorie -- Governing the alien nation : the comparative politics of extraterrestials / Clyde Wilcox -- Reality transfigured : the Latin American situation as reflected in its science fiction / Ingrid Kreksch -- "In every revolution, there is one man with a vision" : the governments of the future in comparative perspective / Paul Christopher Manuel -- Military, democracy, and the state in Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers / Everett Carl Dolman -- Gender Identity in Star Trek / Kathy E. Ferguson, Gilad Ashkenazi, and Wendy Schultz -- "We Owe It to Them to Interfere" : Star Trek and U.S. Statecraft in the 1960s and the 1990s / Mark P. Lagon. |
| Subject |
Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction. |
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Politics in literature.
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Politics in literature. |
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Utopias in literature.
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Utopias in literature. |
| Added Author |
Hassler, Donald M.
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Wilcox, Clyde, 1953-
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| ISBN |
9781570038471 |
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1570038473 |
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