estrangement, cognition, and the politics of science fiction and utopia /
edited by Patrick Parrinder
Durham [NC] :
Duke University Press,
2001
viii, 312 p. ;
24 cm
Post-contemporary interventions
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-306) and index
Before the Novum : the prehistory of science fiction criticism / Edward James -- Revisiting Suvin's poetics of science fiction / Patrick Parrinder -- 'Look into the dark' : on dystopia and the Novum / Tom Moylan -- Science fiction and utopia : a historico-philosophical overview / Carl Freedman -- Society after the revolution : the blueprints for the forthcoming Socialist society published by the leaders of the Second International / Marc Angenot -- From the images of science to science fiction / Gérard Klein -- Estranged invaders : The war of the worlds / Peter Fitting --'A part of the ... family [?] : John Wyndham's The Midwich cuckoos as estranged autobiography / David Ketterer -- Labyrinth, double and mask in the science fiction of Stanislaw Lem / Rafail Nudelman -- '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 -- 'If I find one good city I will spare the man' : realism and utopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy / Fredric Jameson -- Afterword : With sober, estranged eyes / Darko Suvin -- Darko Suvin : checklist of printed items that concern science fiction