Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Key to Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Swift, Zamyatin, and Orwell and the Language of Utopia
- 2 Generic Configurations of A Story of the Days to Come
- 3 Re-visions of The Time Machine
- 4 Stanislaw Lem's Futurological Congress as a Metageneric Text
- 5 Karel Čapek's Can(n)on of Negation
- 6 Olaf Stapledon's Tragi-Cosmic Vision
- 7 C. S. Lewis and the Fictions of ‘Scientism’
- 8 Kurt Vonnegut, Historiographer of the Absurd: The Sirens of Titan
- 9 Jorge Luis Borges and the Labyrinths of Time
- 10 ‘Elsewhere Elsewhen Otherwise’: Italo Calvino's Cosmicomic Tales
- 11 Ursula K. Le Guin and Time's Dispossession
- 12 Time Out of Joint: The World(s) of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle
- Afterword: A Revisionary Construction of Genre, with Particular Reference to Science Fiction
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Acknowledgments
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Key to Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Swift, Zamyatin, and Orwell and the Language of Utopia
- 2 Generic Configurations of A Story of the Days to Come
- 3 Re-visions of The Time Machine
- 4 Stanislaw Lem's Futurological Congress as a Metageneric Text
- 5 Karel Čapek's Can(n)on of Negation
- 6 Olaf Stapledon's Tragi-Cosmic Vision
- 7 C. S. Lewis and the Fictions of ‘Scientism’
- 8 Kurt Vonnegut, Historiographer of the Absurd: The Sirens of Titan
- 9 Jorge Luis Borges and the Labyrinths of Time
- 10 ‘Elsewhere Elsewhen Otherwise’: Italo Calvino's Cosmicomic Tales
- 11 Ursula K. Le Guin and Time's Dispossession
- 12 Time Out of Joint: The World(s) of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle
- Afterword: A Revisionary Construction of Genre, with Particular Reference to Science Fiction
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Chapter
- Information
- Visions and Re-Visions(Re)constructing Science Fiction, pp. ix - xPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2005