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Histories of the Future

Studies in Fact, Fantasy and Science Fiction

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  • © 2000

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  1. Alan Sandison

    1. University of New England, Australia

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  2. Robert Dingley

    1. University of New England, Australia

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introducing the Future: the Dawn of Science-Fiction Criticism

    • Harry Harrison
    Pages 1-7

  3. History in SF: What (Hasn’t Yet) Happened in History

    • Ken MacLeod
    Pages 8-14

  4. The Ruins of the Future: Macaulay’s New Zealander and the Spirit of the Age

    • Robert Dingley
    Pages 15-33

  5. Celluloid Scientists: Futures Visualised

    • Roslynn D. Haynes
    Pages 34-50

  6. Losing the Sense of Space: Forster’s ‘The Machine Stops’ and Jameson’s «Third Machine Age»

    • Beatrice Battaglia
    Pages 51-71

  7. Boys, Battleships, Books: the Cult of the Navy in US Juvenile Fiction, 1898–1919

    • Bruce Brasington
    Pages 72-90

  8. American Dreams and Edwardian Aspirations: Technological Innovation and Temporal Uncertainty in Narratives of Expectation

    • Charles E. Gannon
    Pages 91-111

  9. Filing the Future: Reporting on World War Three

    • David Seed
    Pages 112-123

  10. The Map of Apocalypse: Nuclear War and the Space of Dystopia in American Science Fiction

    • Brian Baker
    Pages 124-136

  11. A New World Made to Order: Making Sense of the Future in a Global Era

    • Alasdair Spark
    Pages 137-151

  12. Sign, Symbol, Power: the New Martian Novel

    • Robert Crossley
    Pages 152-167

  13. Starship Troopers, Galactic Heroes, Mercenary Princes: the Military and its Discontents in Science Fiction

    • Tom Shippey
    Pages 168-183

  14. Terrible Angels: Science Fiction and the Singularity

    • Damien Broderick
    Pages 184-196

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 197-202
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About this book

This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines some of the ways in which writers, artists, film-makers, strategists and political thinkers have imagined the future over the last two centuries. Although a number of contributions discuss 'mainstream' science fiction, the collection's emphasis is not on any single genre, but rather on the ways in which different histories - technological, cultural, military, ideological - generate and inform different modes of speculation about things to come. These histories also disclose that our patterns of expectation are much influenced by our relationship to the past.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of New England, Australia

    Alan Sandison, Robert Dingley

About the editors

ALAN SANDISON is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of New England, NSW. His publications include The Wheel of Empire (1967), The Last Man in Europe (1974: later revised and enlarged as George Orwell: After 1984 [1986]), and Robert Louis Stevenson and the Appearance of Modernism (1996).

ROBERT DINGLEY is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of New England, NSW and was formerly a Research Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. His publications include The Land of the Golden Fleece (1995).

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