1st Edition

Scraps Of The Untainted Sky Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia

By Thomas Moylan Copyright 2000
406 Pages
by Routledge

408 Pages
by Routledge

408 Pages
by Routledge

Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity through the buying and selling of everyday life provided fertile ground for this fictive underside of the utopian imagination. From the classical works by E. M. Forster, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, George... Read more
Permissions , Preface , Science Fiction and Utopia , Dangerous Visions , Absent Paradigms , Daring to Dream , Dystopia , New Maps of Hell , The Dystopian Turn , The Critical Dystopia , Dystopian Maneuvers , Kim Stanley Robinson’s Other California , Octavia Butler’s Parables , Marge Piercy’s Tale of Hope , Horizons , Film and Video

Biography

Thomas Moylan