Table of Contents

Permissions , Preface , Science Fiction and Utopia , Dangerous Visions , Absent Paradigms , Daring to Dream , Dystopia , New Maps of Hell , The Dystopian Turn , The Critical Dystopia , Dystopian Maneuvers , Kim Stanley Robinson’s Other California , Octavia Butler’s Parables , Marge Piercy’s Tale of Hope , Horizons , Film and Video

About the Author

Tom Moylan is Glucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His publications include Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination and Not Yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch.