New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction

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ISBN: 9781570037368 | 1570037361
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/30/2008

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Preface: Inside and Out	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
On the Personal "New Man"
Landscapes of Change: Science, Science Fiction, and Advances in Biology	p. 3
Looking Within: Science Fiction Explores the Future of "Being Human"	p. 17
Fractal Fantasies of Transformation: William Blake, Michael Moorcock, and the Utilities of Mythographic Shamanism	p. 35
Politicized Dystopia and Biomedical Imaginaries: The Case of "The Machine Stops"	p. 53
Science Fiction and Politics: Cyberpunk Science Fiction as Political Philosophy	p. 65
Not Lost in Space: Revising the Politics of Cold War Womanhood in Judith Merril's Science Fiction	p. 78
Race, Robots, and the Law	p. 93
On Power and the "Nation"
Of Starship Troopers and Refuseniks: War and Militarism in U.S. Science Fiction, Part 1 (1945-1974: Fordism)	p. 115
Science Fiction Narratives of Mass Destruction and the Politics of National Security	p. 145
A Truly American Enterprise: Star Trek's Post-9/11 Politics	p. 157
"But What of Lazarus?": Taking Individuals Seriously in the Star Trek Saga	p. 167
Inverted Perspectives on Politics and Morality in Battlestar Galactica	p. 179
The Body Politic in Brazilian Science Fiction: Implants and Cyborgs	p. 198
A Brazilian Metafiction: Paulo de Sousa Ramos's Dystopian Novella	p. 212
Stagecoach in Space: The Legacy of Firefly	p. 223
On Individual Writers and Situations
Outside Context Problems: Liberalism and the Other in the Work of Iain M. Banks	p. 235
To the Perdido Street Station: The Representation of Revolution in China Mieville's Iron Council	p. 259
Socialist Surrealism: China Mieville's New Crobuzon Novels	p. 272
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Critique: Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap into Genre	p. 290
Politics, Multiplicity, and Mythical Time in the Oeuvre of Philip K. Dick	p. 299
The (Not Yet) Utopian Dimension and the Collapse of Cyberpunk in Walter Mosley's Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World	p. 315
A Last Situation: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Cultural Critic Leslie Fiedler	p. 339
About the Contributors	p. 353
Index	p. 357
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