Histories of the Future
Studies in Fact, Fantasy and Science Fiction
Published on 10. November 2000
Book
Hardback
XVIII, 202 pages
978-0-333-77641-4 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines some of the ways in which writers, artists, film-makers, strategists and political thinkers have imagined the future over the last two centuries. Although a number of contributions discuss 'mainstream' science fiction, the collection's emphasis is not on any single genre, but rather on the ways in which different histories - technological, cultural, military, ideological - generate and inform different modes of speculation about things to come. These histories also disclose that our patterns of expectation are much influenced by our relationship to the past.
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Edition
2000
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XVIII, 202 p.
Dimensions
Height: 165 mm
Width: 223 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-77641-4 (9780333776414)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4039-1929-8
Schweitzer Classification
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04/2016
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Person
ALAN SANDISON is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of New England, NSW. His publications include
The Wheel of Empire
(1967),
The Last Man in Europe
(1974: later revised and enlarged as
George Orwell: After 1984
[1986]), and
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Appearance of Modernism
(1996).
ROBERT DINGLEY is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of New England, NSW and was formerly a Research Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. His publications include The Land of the Golden Fleece (1995).
ROBERT DINGLEY is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of New England, NSW and was formerly a Research Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. His publications include The Land of the Golden Fleece (1995).
Content
List of Plates Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introducing the Future: The Dawn of Science Fiction Criticism; H.Harrison History in SF: What (Hasn't Yet) Happened in History; K.MacLeod The Ruins of the Future: Macaulay's New Zealander and the Spirit of the Age; R.Dingley Celluloid Scientists: Futures Visualised; R.D.Haynes Losing the Sense and Space: Forster's The Machine Stops and Jameson's Third Machine Age; B.Battaglia Boys, Battleships, Books: The Cult of the Navy in US Juvenile Fiction, 1898-1919; B.Brasington American Dreams and Edwardian Aspirations: Technological Innovation and Temporal Uncertainty in Narratives of Expectation; C.E.Gannon Filing the Future: Reporting on World War Three; D.Seed The Map of the Apocalypse: Nuclear War and the Space of Dystopia in American Science Fiction; B.Baker A New World Made to Order: Making Sense of the Future in a Global Era; A.Spark Sign, Symbol, Power: The New Martian Novel; R.Crossley Starship Troopers, Galactic Heroes, Mercenary Princes: The Military and its Discontents in Science Fiction; T.Shippey Terrible Angels: Science Fiction and the Singularity; D.Broderick Index