Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination

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Through the lens of science fiction, this book investigates representations of time in postmodernism.

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Acknowledgements	p. viii
Preface: Timeshapes	p. ix
Introduction: Time Enough for World	p. 1
The Time Machines: H. G. Wells and the Invention of Postmodernity	p. 27
Strangled by the Time Loop: Paradoxes of Determinism	p. 53
'My Name is Might-Have-Been': Contingency, Counterfactuals and Moral Choice	p. 82
Everyday Apocalypse: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the End of Time	p. 118
Conclusion: Beyond Millennium	p. 147
Notes	p. 162
Works Cited	p. 165
Index	p. 175
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