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Tag Archives: utopia
In the Chinks of the World Machine
In the Chinks of the World Machine provides a committed but very readable picture of the achievements of serious science fiction by women at the time of its publication in 1988. Sarah Lefanu was in a privileged position to write … Continue reading
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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Utopia without Fascism
The 1000-page bulk of Austin Tappan Wright’s Islandia had sat intimidatingly on the shelf since I acquired it. Only in the period of forced leisure after an operation did I get round to reading it. Long hours in bed gave … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Politics, science fiction
Tagged 'Summer Ice', Austin Tappan Wright, Holly Phillips, Islandia, South Africa, 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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What’s the Story to Get to a Better Society?
I wanted to write something else about the EU referendum – or rather about one aspect of the consequences now unfolding at dizzying speed. How, though, to make that relevant to the focus of this blog? Well, when you stand … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, science fiction
Tagged EU referendum, Greece, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, News from Nowhere, radical left, SYRIZA, UK, utopia, William Morris
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Future Primitive
A particular kind of science fiction converges with green aspirations in ‘future primitive’ visions of a future society less dominated by technology. There are positive and negative versions of this kind of future – and positive and negative pathways to … Continue reading
