Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP Landscapes of change : science, science fiction, and advances in biology / Peter R. Bergethon Looking within: science fiction explores the future of "being human" / Bruce L. Rockwood Fractal fantasies of transformation : William Blake, Michael Moorcock, and the utilities of mythographic shamanism / Carter Kaplan Politicized dystopia and biomedical imaginaries : the case of "The Machine Stops" / Mark Decker Science fiction and politics : cyberpunk science fiction as political philosophy / Thomas Michaud Not lost in space : revising the politics of cold war womanhood in Judith Merril's science fiction / Lisa Yaszek Race, robots, and the law / Wanda Raiford Of starship troopers and refuseniks : war and militarism in U.S. science fiction, part 1 (1945-1974: Fordism) / Darko Suvin Science fiction narratives of mass destruction and the politics of national security / Doug Davis Truly American enterprise : Star Trek's post-9/11 politics / Lincoln Geraghty "But what of Lazarus?" : taking individuals seriously in the Star Trek saga / Paul Christopher Manuel Inverted perspectives on politics and morality in Battlestar Galactica / Woody Goulart and Wesley Y. Joe Body politic in Brazilian science fiction : implants and cyborgs / M. Elizabeth Ginway Brazilian metafiction : Paulo de Sousa Ramos's dystopian novella / Roberto de Sousa Causo Stagecoach in space : the legacy of Firefly / Fred Erisman Outside context problems : liberalism and the other in the work of Iain M. Banks / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson and James Heilman To the Perdido Street Station : the representation of revolution in China Miéville's Iron Council / Carl Freedman Socialist surrealism : China Miéville's New Crobuzon novels / Henry Farrell Science fiction, fantasy, and social critique : Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap into genre / Dennis Wilson Wise Politics, multiplicity, and mythical time in the oeuvre of Philip K. Dick / Sándor Klapcsik (Not yet) utopian dimension and the collapse of cyberpunk in Walter Mosley's Futureland : Nine Stories of an Imminent World / Sandy Rankin Last situation : Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and cultural critic Leslie Fiedler / Marleen S. Barr. |
