Histories of the Future: Studies in Fact, Fantasy and Science Fiction - Hardcover

Sandison, Alan

 
9780333776414: Histories of the Future: Studies in Fact, Fantasy and Science Fiction
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ISBN 10: 0333776410 ISBN 13: 9780333776414
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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).

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0333776410
ISBN 13 
9780333776414
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
220

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