Science Fiction Roots and Branches: Contemporary Critical Approaches

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Counter-Projects: William Morris and the Science Fiction of the 1880s....Pages 7-17
H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds....Pages 18-29
Dracula and The Beetle: Imperial and Sexual Guilt and Fear in Late Victorian Fantasy....Pages 30-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Scientists in Science Fiction: Enlightenment and After....Pages 57-78
The World as Code and Labyrinth: Stanislaw Lem’s Memoirs Found in a Bathtub....Pages 79-87
The Neglected Fiction of John Wyndham: ‘Consider Her Ways’, Trouble with Lichen and Web....Pages 88-103
Frank Herbert’s Dune and the Discourse of Apocalyptic Ecologism in the United States....Pages 104-124
Ursula Le Guin and Time’s Dispossession....Pages 125-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Men in Feminist Science Fiction: Marge Piercy, Thomas Berger and the End of Masculinity....Pages 153-167
The Destabilisation of Gender in Vonda McIntyre’s Superluminal....Pages 168-182
Man-Made Monsters: Suzy McKee Charnas’s Walk to the End of the World as Dystopian Feminist Science Fiction....Pages 183-206
Back Matter....Pages 207-210