Locating Science Fiction

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

1.         Memories of Dan Dare

            Memories of Science Fiction. Literature, Genre and Popular Fiction. Memories of Dan     Dare. Tales of Resonance and Wonder.

2.         Science Fiction and Selective Tradition

            Academic Definitions of Science Fiction. Modernism, Modernity and Science Fiction.           Non-Academic Definitions of Science Fiction. Rethinking Genre. Rethinking Tradition.

3.         Science Fiction and the Cultural Field

            From the French Literary Field to the Global Science Fiction Field. Ideas and Effects.           Science Fiction as Drama. Science Fiction as Prose. The Restricted Economy and      Institutionalised Bourgeois Art.

4.         Radio Science Fiction and the Theory of Genre

            Cultural Materialism as Method. Radio Technology and Science Fiction. Radio Science           Fiction Forms: Three Texts. Radio Institutions.

5.         Science Fiction, Utopia and Fantasy

            The North American Argument. The European Argument. Science Fiction and Fantasy.          Utopianism in Popular Science Fiction.

6.         Science Fiction and Dystopia

            The Antipathy to Dystopia. The Strange Case of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Science Fiction            as a Generic Context. Three Intertexts. An Ideal Typology and Some Hypotheses.

7.         When Was Science Fiction?

            Long Histories of Science Fiction. Science Fiction and the Structure of Feeling. Form and        History.

8.         Where Was Science Fiction?

            Postcolonial Theory and Science Fiction. World-Systems Theory and Science Fiction:           The Anglo-French Core. The European Semiperiphery. From the Semiperiphery to Core:          North America and Japan.

9.         The Uses of Science Fiction

            Future Stories and Futurologies. Antipodean Utopias. On the Beach and The Sea and             Summer. Anticipations of Phil Chase. Afterword.

Works Cited

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