Jutta Weldes, ed. To Seek Out New Worlds: Exploring Links Between Science Fiction and World Politics.(Book Review)

Utopian Studies | March 22, 2003| | Copyright

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. ix + 230 pp. $22.95.

"EXTRAPOLATION IS THE CRITIQUE OF A MIRROR" (210). Perhaps nowhere in popular culture is this truer than in the genre of science fiction. Simultaneously about the future and present, equally laced with utopian and dystopian potential, and endlessly self-referential, science fiction speaks to the realities of its own times while trying to escape them.

Analysis of the interaction between science fiction, or any form of popular entertainment, and politics always threatens to become facile and banal. The ...

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