• Publication: Learning from Other WorldsPublication Record # 344808
• Author: Patrick Parrinder
• Date: 2001-03-00
• ISBN: 0-8223-2776-7 [978-0-8223-2776-9]
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Pub. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
• Pages: viii+312
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Notes: Data from WorldCat and Amazon.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 469072757 231920560 45460839

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction (Learning from Other Worlds) • (1999) • essay by Patrick Parrinder
• Before the Novum: The Prehistory of Science Fiction Criticism • (1999) • essay by Edward James
• Revisiting Suvin's Poetics of Science Fiction • (1999) • essay by Patrick Parrinder
• 'Look Into the Dark': On Dystopia and the Novum • (1999) • essay by Tom Moylan
• Science Fiction and Utopia: A Historico-Philosophical Overview • (1999) • essay by Carl Freedman
• Society after the Revolution: The Blueprints for the Forthcoming Socialist Society published by the Leaders of the Second International • (1999) • essay by Marc Angenot
• From the Images of Science to Science Fiction • (1999) • essay by
  Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein
• Estranged Invaders: The War of the Worlds • (1999) • essay by Peter Fitting
• 'A part of the ... family [?]': John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos as Estranged Autobiography • (1999) • essay by David Ketterer
• Labyrinth, Double and Mask in the Science Fiction of Stanislaw Lem • (1999) • essay by
  Рафаил Нудельман^?Rafail Nudelman
  (trans. of
  Лабиринт и подмена: (Некоторые аспекты творчества С. Лема)^?Labirint i podmena: (Nekotorye aspekty tvorchestva S. Lema)
  1995) [as by 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 • (1999) • essay by Marleen S. Barr
• 'If I find one good city I will spare the man': Realism and Utopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy • (1999) • essay by Fredric Jameson
• Afterword: With Sober, Estranged Eyes • (1999) • essay by Darko Suvin
• Checklist of Printed Items that Concern Science Fiction (with Utopian Fiction or Utopianism, and a few Bordering Items) • (1999) • essay by Darko Suvin