Science Fiction and Anticipation

Science Fiction and Anticipation

Utopias, Dystopias and Time Travel

Keck, Michaela; Suzuki, Akiyoshi; Chandia, Miguel Angel Gonzalez; Montoneri, Bernard; Al-Lehaibi, Majed S.; Toom, Anna; Giridharan, Beena; Montoneri, Bernard; Grueso, Fernando Dario Gonzalez; El Hajj, Murielle

Lexington Books

08/2022

262

Dura

Inglês

9781666918137

15 a 20 dias

526

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Preface

Introduction

Chapter One: Mercier's The Year 2440, a Dream and a "Thought Experiment"

Bernard Montoneri

Chapter Two: Origins of Hard Science Fiction: An Approach

Fernando Dario Gonzalez Grueso

Chapter Three: Beyond Utopia: The Dystopian Capitalist Society in Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863)

Murielle El Hajj Nahas

Chapter Four: With Second Sight and Afro-pessimism: The Im/Possibility of Black Utopia in Martin R. Delany's Blake; or, The Huts of America

Michaela Keck

Chapter Five: The Phenomenon of Human-Animal Hybridization in Russian Science Fiction of the 20th Century

Anna Toom

Chapter Six: Barjavel, Ravage: roman extraordinaire (1943)

Bernard Montoneri and Murielle El Hajj Nahas

Chapter Seven: Dystopia as the First-person World: Rereading E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops as a Pandemic Novel of a Global Society

Akiyoshi Suzuki

Chapter Eight: Orwellian Themes and Echoes in Today's World-A Perspective

Beena Giridharan

Chapter Nine: The 19th Century American Socialism: A Vision of A Future Utopia

Majed S Al-Lehaibi and Bernard Montoneri

Chapter Ten: The Invention of Morel, a Projection on Dreams and Immortality

Miguel Angel Gonzalez Chandia

Appendix: Some key titles in science fiction

Index

About the Editor and Contributors
Black Utopia;Dystopia;Science fiction;Technological advances;Time travel