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Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination
The monochrome cover of Dark Horizons is very dark, and its subtitle is Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination, but the agenda of editors Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan in this collection of essays is as much about utopia as … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-utopia, Dark Horizons, dystopia, Raffaella Baccolini, Tom Moylan, utopia
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Jean Hegland’s Into the Forest
I first heard about Jean Hegland’s novel Into the Forest in an Interzone review by David Pringle in 1998, two years after the book was published. Hegland is a West Coast author and Pringle positioned her novel in a subgenre … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Fiction, science fiction
Tagged California SF, David Pringle, dystopia, Into the Forest, Jean Hegland, Ursula Le Guin, utopia
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Like a Slow-Motion Car Crash
I’ve sometimes wondered what it must be like to live in a time when you can see that your society is wilfully racing towards political disaster – war, say, or violent revolution, or fascist supremacy – and no appeal either … Continue reading
Right-Wing Dystopia
The UK general election in May effected a further rightward shift in politics. Similar trends can be seen elsewhere in Europe. In a time of economic and environmental crisis the ensuing right-wing policies look set to head in exactly the … Continue reading
Celebrating the Radical Imagination – guest post by Helen Moore
‘Just imagine the world without … [insert brand]!’ Today, our capacity to imagine is frequently coopted, with advertising endlessly fuelling our sense of ourselves as consumers, rather than citizens of this Earth community. Industrial growth society systematically reinforces ‘monocultures of … Continue reading
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