Cold War Stories

Andrew Hammond is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Brighton, UK. His research interests are Cold War fiction, twentieth-century British fiction, postcolonial literature and theory and cross-cultural representation. Previous publications include The Novel and Europe (editor, 2016), British Fiction and the Cold War (2013) and British Literature and the Balkans (2010).

“There are interesting snippets of cultural history—secret service espionage, fear of Soviet invasion, the growth of the European Economic Community—and I learned a lot.” (Andrew M. Butler, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 46, 2019)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Cold War Anxieties.- 3. A Weakened Nation.- 4. The Art of Dystopia.