Science fiction, new space opera, and neoliberal globalism : nostalgia for infinity /
One of the few points critics and readers can agree upon when discussing the fiction popularly known as New Space Opera - a recent subgenre movement of science fiction - is its canny engagement with contemporary cultural politics in the age of globalisation. This book avers that the complex politica...
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press,
2016.
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| Series: | New dimensions in science fiction.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The Neoliberal Masters of the Universe: The Origin of New Space Opera in Samuel R. Delany's Nova and M. John Harrison's Centauri Device and Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy
- 2. `Moments in the Fall': Neoliberal Globalism and Utopian Socialist Desire in Ken MacLeod's `Fall Revolution' Quartet and lain M. Banks's `Culture' Series
- 3. Global Feminism and Neoliberal Crisis in Gwyneth Jones's `Aleutian Trilogy'
- 4. `Archipelagoes of Stars': Caribbean Cosmopolitics in Postcolonial SF.