Locating Science Fiction

Andrew Milner is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Monash University.

'A consistently thoughtful account of its subject… The result never flags in offering consistently interesting insights into SF which do justice to its rich diversity.'Key Words

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures1. Memories of Dan DareMemories of Science Fiction. Literature, Genre and Popular Fiction. Memories of Dan Dare.Tales of Resonance and Wonder.2. Science Fiction and Selective TraditionAcademic Definitions of Science Fiction. Modernism, Modernity and Science Fiction.Non-Academic Definitions of Science Fiction. Rethinking Genre. Rethinking Tradition.3. Science Fiction and the Literary FieldFrom the French Literary Field to the Global Science Fiction Field. Ideas and Effects. Science Fiction as Drama. Science Fiction as Prose. The Restricted Economy and Institutionalised Bourgeois Art.4. Radio Science Fiction and the Theory of GenreCultural Materialism as Method. Radio Technology and Science Fiction. Radio Science Fiction Forms: Three Texts. Radio Institutions.5. Science Fiction, Utopia and FantasyThe North American Argument. The European Argument. Science Fiction and Fantasy. Utopianism in Popular Science Fiction.6. Science Fiction and DystopiaThe Antipathy to Dystopia. The Strange Case of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Science Fiction as a Generic Context. Three Intertexts. An Ideal Typology and Some Hypotheses.7. When Was Science Fiction?Long Histories of Science Fiction. Science Fiction and the Structure of Feeling. Form and History.8. Where Was Science Fiction?Postcolonial Theory and Science Fiction. World-Systems Theory and Science Fiction: The Anglo-French Core. The European Semiperiphery. From the Semiperiphery to Core: North America and Japan.9. The Uses of Science FictionFuture Stories and Futurologies. Antipodean Utopias. On the Beach and The Sea and Summer. Anticipations of Phil Chase. Afterword.Works CitedIndex