Political science fiction / edited by Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hassler, Donald M.

Wilcox, Clyde, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction--History and criticism.

Science fiction.

Politics in literature.

Utopias in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 256 p. )

Place of Publication:

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-33152-9