Caroline Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Her work on living writers has led to two co-edited books: China Miéville: Critical Essays (2015) and Maggie Gee: Critical Essays (2015). Caroline has published in a number of journals, including Telos, Modern Fiction Studies, Textual Practice, ASAP/Journal, Contemporary Literature, Subjectivity, Times Higher Education and New Statesman. Caroline is a founding member of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) and a director of the scholarly publisher Open Library of Humanities.

'Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel is an ambitious, engaging and original book. Edwards shows how the twenty-first century is experiencing a Renaissance of experimentalism that reconsiders time and temporal experience in imaginative fictions. This book will definitely make a mark, reinvigorating the utopian philosophy of Ernst Bloch and providing a persuasive way of reading the evident preoccupation with the temporal and the possibility of recovering political hope in dark times that is evident across so much contemporary writing.' Patricia Waugh, Durham University

• 1. Introduction: daily into the blue; 2. Reading fictions of the not yet; 3. Death: moments of possibility; 4. Transmigration: networking utopian times; 5. Apocalypse: co-evolutionary futures; 6. Epilogue: world as home.

Caroline Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Her work on living writers has led to two co-edited books: China Miéville: Critical Essays (2015) and Maggie Gee: Critical Essays (2015). Caroline has published in a number of journals, including Telos, Modern Fiction Studies, Textual Practice, ASAP/Journal, Contemporary Literature, Subjectivity, Times Higher Education and New Statesman. Caroline is a founding member of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) and a director of the scholarly publisher Open Library of Humanities.

'Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel is an ambitious, engaging and original book. Edwards shows how the twenty-first century is experiencing a Renaissance of experimentalism that reconsiders time and temporal experience in imaginative fictions. This book will definitely make a mark, reinvigorating the utopian philosophy of Ernst Bloch and providing a persuasive way of reading the evident preoccupation with the temporal and the possibility of recovering political hope in dark times that is evident across so much contemporary writing.' Patricia Waugh, Durham University

• 1. Introduction: daily into the blue; 2. Reading fictions of the not yet; 3. Death: moments of possibility; 4. Transmigration: networking utopian times; 5. Apocalypse: co-evolutionary futures; 6. Epilogue: world as home.

Caroline Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Her work on living writers has led to two co-edited books: China Miéville: Critical Essays (2015) and Maggie Gee: Critical Essays (2015). Caroline has published in a number of journals, including Telos, Modern Fiction Studies, Textual Practice, ASAP/Journal, Contemporary Literature, Subjectivity, Times Higher Education and New Statesman. Caroline is a founding member of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) and a director of the scholarly publisher Open Library of Humanities.

'Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel is an ambitious, engaging and original book. Edwards shows how the twenty-first century is experiencing a Renaissance of experimentalism that reconsiders time and temporal experience in imaginative fictions. This book will definitely make a mark, reinvigorating the utopian philosophy of Ernst Bloch and providing a persuasive way of reading the evident preoccupation with the temporal and the possibility of recovering political hope in dark times that is evident across so much contemporary writing.' Patricia Waugh, Durham University

• 1. Introduction: daily into the blue; 2. Reading fictions of the not yet; 3. Death: moments of possibility; 4. Transmigration: networking utopian times; 5. Apocalypse: co-evolutionary futures; 6. Epilogue: world as home.