Play in utopian and dystopian fiction /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Be More Dolphin!
- Part 1 Utopia
- 1 What Is Play?
- Work and Play
- The Grasshopper
- Playing at Utopia
- 2 Utopia and Stasis
- Sustainability and Growth
- The Creative Utopia
- Halting the Machine
- Part 2 Dystopia
- Dystopian Play
- Deadly Dystopian Games
- Blood Sports
- Violence and Boredom
- 3 The Boring Dystopia
- The Slow Decline
- The Static Dystopia
- Enticing Dystopias
- Part 3 Synthesis
- 5 The Absurd
- Absurd Utopias
- Absurd Dystopias
- Bowing to the Absurd
- 6 The Future of Play
- Building Worlds, Building Empathy
- Hacking, Modding, and Playing with Identity
- Living Forever
- Conclusion: All Play and No Work!