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Science fiction--History and criticism, Politics in literature.
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1997
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PN3433.8.P65 1996eb
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809.3/876209358
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Science fiction--History and criticism, Politics in literature.
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Political Science Fiction
Edited by Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox
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1997 University of South Carolina
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Political science fiction / editors, Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-57003-113-4 1. Science fictionHistory and criticism. 2. Politics in literature. I. Hassler, Donald M. II. Wilcox, Clyde, 1953- . 809.3'876209358dc20 96-10073
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Contents
Preface
vii
Introduction: Politics, Art, Collaboration
Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox
1
1. The Politics of Prophecy
Frederik Pohl
7
2. Swift, Pohl, and Kornbluth: Publicists Anatomize Newness
Donald M. Hassler
18
3. H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia as a Work in Progress
June Deery
26
4. State, Heterotopia: The Political Imagination in Heinlein, Le Guin, and Delany
Neil Easterbrook
43
5. The I-We Dilemma and a "Utopian Unconscious" in Wells's When the Sleeper Wakes and Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven
Carol S. Franko
76
6. No Future! Cyberpunk, Industrial Music, and the Aesthetics of Postmodern Disintegration
Patrick Novotny
99
7. Prince versus Prophet: Machiavellianism in Frank Herbert's Dune Epic
Peter Minowitz
124
8. Feminist Utopian Fiction and the Possibility of Social Critique
Josephine Carubia Glorie
148
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9. Governing the Alien Nation: The Comparative Politics of Extraterrestials
Clyde Wilcox
160
10. Reality Transfigured: The Latin American Situation as Reflected in Its Science Fiction
Ingrid Kreksch
173
11. "In Every Revolution, There Is One Man with a Vision": The Governments of the Future in Comparative Perspective
Paul Christopher Manuel
183
12. Military, Democracy, and the State in Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers
Everett Carl Dolman
196
13. Gender Identity in Star Trek
Kathy E. Ferguson, Gilad Ashkenazi, and Wendy Schultz
214
14. "We Owe It to Them to Interfere:" Star Trek and U.S. Statecraft in the 1960s and the 1990s
Mark P. Lagon
234
Index
251
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Preface
I sing of arms and the man. Virgil, Aeneid
Our plans for this collection of essays began shortly after the publication of the special issue of Extrapolation devoted to science fiction and politics that appeared in the fall of 1993. We are completing work on the book in May 1995 and as we finish the project cannot ignore the late spring anniversaries around the world that resonate with implications which link our continuing interests in literature, in political science, and in the future. In particular, two of the great military, or "armed," conflicts of our century are being talked about as we complete our literary work so that, though we are no Virgils, we are especially sensitive about the relation of arms to mankind and hence about the relation of politics to the literature of the future that we know as science fiction.
Almost like the melodrama of other popular literature, the anniversaries on our minds at this moment commemorate a good war and a bad war; and so perhaps it is appropriate to evoke such broad outlines and such broad images for the relationships between public events and imaginative literature before the more careful and detailed analyses in what follows. We are reminded of the relevance in academic writing, as well as the relevance of the futuristic fictions which we like to study, when we think of this moment of history. It was just fifty years ago that the Allied forces in Europe declared victory, and it was just a quarter of the century later in May when the antiwar protest movement over Vietnam reached its climax with the shooting of students at Kent State University and at Jackson State. Thus somewhere between victory and defeat, and dependent on the collaborative work of all our contributors who lived through both, we think we can attribute the origins of this collection of essays. War and conflict teach us that there is no place to hide,
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