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New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction

Donald M. Hassler & Clyde Wilcox

First published 2008
Publisher University of South Carolina Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Alberto Fanelli
Pages xii+362
ISBN 9781570037368

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Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Landscapes of Change: Science, Science Fiction and Advances in Biology Peter R. Bergethon Essay
17 Looking Within: Science Fiction Explores the Future of "Being Human" Bruce L. Rockwood Essay
35 Fractal Fantasies of Transformation: William Blake, Michael Moorcock, and the Utilities of Mythographic Shamanism Carter Kaplan Essay
53 Politicized Dystopia and Biomedical Imaginaries: The Case of "The Machine Stops" Mark Decker Essay
65 Science Fiction and Politics: Cyberpunk Science Fiction as Political Philosophy Thomas Michaud Essay
78 Not Lost in Space: Revising the Plolitics of Cold War Womanhood in Judith Merril's Science Fiction Lisa Yaszek Essay
93 Race, Robots, and the Law Wanda Raiford Essay
115 Of Starship Troopers and Refuseniks: War and Militarism in U.S. Science Fiction, Part I (1945-1974: Fordism) Darko Suvin Essay
145 Science Fiction Narratives of Mass Destruction and the Politics of National Security Doug Davis Essay
157 A Truly American Enterprise: Star Trek's Post-9/11 Politics Lincoln Geraghty Essay
167 "But What of Lazarus?": Taking Individuals Seriously in the Star Trek saga Paul Christopher Manuel Essay
179 Inverted Perspectives on Politics and Morality in Battlestar Galactica Woody Goulart & Wesley Y. Joe Essay
198 The Body Politic in Brazilian Science Fiction: Implants and Cyborgs M. Elizabeth Ginway Essay
212 A Brazilian Metafiction: Paulo de Sousa Ramos's Dystopian Novella Roberto de Sousa Causo Essay
223 Stagecoach in Space: The Legacy of Firefly Fred Erisman Essay
235 Outside Context Problems: Liberalism and the Other in the Work of Iain M. Banks Patrick Thaddeus Jackson & James Heilman Essay
259 To Perdido Street Station: The Representation of Revolution in China Miéville's Iron Council Carl Freedman Essay
272 Socialist Surrealism: China Miéville's New Crobuzon Novels Henry Farrell Essay
290 Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Critique: Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap into Genre Dennis Wilson Wise Essay
299 Politics, Multiplicity, and Mythical Time in the Oeuvre of Philip K. Dick Sandor Klapcsik Essay
315 The (Not Yet) Utopian Dimension and the Collapse of Cyberpunk in Walter Mosley's Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World Sandy Rankin Essay
339 A Last Situation: Secretary of State Condoleezza Race and Cultural Critic Leslie Fiedler Marleen S. Barr Essay
vii Inside and Outside Clyde Wilcox & Donald M. Hassler Essay