Histories of the Future: Studies in Fact, Fantasy and Science Fiction

Sandison, Alan

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-11-10

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333776414

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4039-1929-8

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 202