• Publication: Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian ImaginationPublication Record # 342074
• Authors: Raffaella Baccolini, Tom Moylan
• Date: 2003-09-00
• ISBN: 0-415-96614-0 [978-0-415-96614-6]
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: xi+264
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Notes: Information from Amazon and WorldCat.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction. Dystopia and Histories • essay by Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan
• Utopia in Dark Times: Optimism/ Pessimism and Utopia/Dystopia • essay by Ruth Levitas and Lucy Sargisson
• Genre Blending and the Critical Dystopia • essay by Jane Donawe
• The Writing of Utopia and the Feminist Critical Dystopia: Suzy McKee Charnas's Holdfast Series • essay by Ildney Cavalcanti
• Cyberpunk and Dystopia: Pat Cadigan's Networks • essay by David Seed
• Posthuman Bodies and Agency in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis • essay by Naomi Jacobs
• "A useful knowledge of the present is rooted in the past": Memory and Historical Reconciliation in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Telling • essay by Raffaella Baccolini
• "The moment is here ... and it's important": State, Agency, and Dystopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Antarctica and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Telling • essay by Tom Moylan
• Unmasking the Real? Critique and Utopia in Recent SF Films • essay by Peter Fitting
• Where the Prospective Horizon Is Omitted: Naturalism and Dystopia in Fight Club and Ghost Dog • essay by Phillip E. Wegner
• Theses on Dystopia 2001 • essay by Darko Suvin
• Concrete Dystopia: Slavery and Its Others • essay by Maria Varsam
• The Problem of the "Flawed Utopia": A Note on the Costs of Eutopia • essay by Lyman Tower Sargent
• Conclusion. Critical Dystopia and Possibilities • essay by Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan