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Distributed for Liverpool University Press

Patricia Kerslake

Science Fiction and Empire

217 pages,  6 x 9  © 2007
Series: Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies

Cloth $75.00

ISBN: 9781846310249   Published June 2007
For sale in North America only

      Introduction
 
1.   The Self and Representations of the Other in Science Fiction
2.   Resistance Is Futile: Silencing and Cultural Appropriation
3.   The Word of World Is Forest: Metaphor and Empire in Science Fiction
4.   Things Fall Apart: Relativity, Distance and the Periphery
5.   Moments of Empire: Perceptions of Lasswitz and Wells
6.   Exoticising the Future: American Greats
7.   The Shape of Things to Come: Homo futuris and the Imperial Project
8.   A Postcolonial Imagination: Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars
9.   Beyond Empire: Meta-empire and Postcoloniality
      Conclusion
    
       Notes
       Bibliography
       Index
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