| Description |
xvi, 431 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published: 2005. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The desire called utopia. Introduction: Utopia now ; Varieties of the utopian ; The utopian enclave ; Morus: the generic window ; Utopian science versus utopian ideology ; The great schism ; How to fulfill a wish ; The barrier of time ; The unknowability thesis ; The alien body ; Utopia and its antinomies ; Synthesis, irony, neutralization and the moment of truth ; Journey into fear ; The future as disruption. -- pt. 2. As far as thought can reach. Fourier, or, Ontology and utopia ; Generic discontinuities in SF: Brian Aldiss' Starship ; World reduction in Le Guin ; Progress versus utopia, or, Can we imagine the future? ; Science fiction as a spatial genre: Vonda McIntyre's The exile waiting ; The space of science fiction: narrative in Van Vogt ; Longevity as class struggle ; Philip K. Dick, in memoriam ; After armageddon: character systems in Dr. Bloodmoney ; History and salvation in Philip K. Dick ; Fear and loathing in globalization ; "If I can find one good city, I will spare the man": realism and utopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. |
| Summary |
'Archaeologies of the Future' investigates the development of the utopian form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of utopian thinking in a post-Communist age. |
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Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Utopias in literature.
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Future, The, in literature.
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| ISBN |
9781844675388 (pbk.) |
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1844675386 (pbk.) |
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