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Tables of Contents for Learning from Other Worlds
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
vi
 
Contributors
vii
 
Introduction: Learning from Other Worlds
1
18
Patrick Parrinder
Part I: Science Fiction and Utopia: Theory and Politics
Before the Novum: The Prehistory of Science Fiction Criticism
19
17
Edward James
Revisiting Suvin's Poetics of Science Fiction
36
15
Patrick Parrinder
`Look into the dark': On Dystopia and the Novum
51
21
Tom Moylan
Science Fiction and Utopia: A Historico-Philosophical Overview
72
26
Carl Freedman
Society After the Revolution: The Blueprints for the Forthcoming Socialist Society published by the Leaders of the Second International
98
21
Marc Angenot
Part II: Science Fiction in its Social, Cultural and Philosophical Contexts
From the Images of Science to Science Fiction
119
8
Gerard Klein
Estranged Invaders: The War of the Worlds
127
19
Peter Fitting
`A part of the ... family [?]': John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos as Estranged Autobiography
146
32
David Ketterer
Labyrinth, Double and Mask in the Science Fiction of Stanislaw Lem
178
15
Rafail Nudelman
`We're at the start of a new ball game and that's why we're all real nervous': Or, Cloning--Technological Cognition Reflects Estrangement from Women
193
15
Marleen S. Barr
`If I find one good city I will spare the man': Realism and Utopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy
208
25
Fredric Jameson
Afterword: With Sober, Estranged Eyes
233
39
Darko Suvin
Darko Suvin: Checklist of Printed Items that Concern Science Fiction
272
19
Bibliography
291
16
Index
307