Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Self and Representations of the Other in Science Fiction
- 2 Resistance Is Futile: Silencing and Cultural Appropriation
- 3 The Word for World Is Forest: Metaphor and Empire in Science Fiction
- 4 Things Fall Apart: Relativity, Distance and the Periphery
- 5 Moments of Empire: Perceptions of Lasswitz and Wells
- 6 Exoticising the Future: American Greats
- 7 The Shape of Things to Come: Homo futuris and the Imperial Project
- 8 A Postcolonial Imagination: Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars
- 9 Beyond Empire: Meta-empire and Postcoloniality
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Notes
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Self and Representations of the Other in Science Fiction
- 2 Resistance Is Futile: Silencing and Cultural Appropriation
- 3 The Word for World Is Forest: Metaphor and Empire in Science Fiction
- 4 Things Fall Apart: Relativity, Distance and the Periphery
- 5 Moments of Empire: Perceptions of Lasswitz and Wells
- 6 Exoticising the Future: American Greats
- 7 The Shape of Things to Come: Homo futuris and the Imperial Project
- 8 A Postcolonial Imagination: Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars
- 9 Beyond Empire: Meta-empire and Postcoloniality
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Science Fiction and Empire , pp. 193 - 205Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2010