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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 40, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed* When science fiction writers explore gender politics through an extra-terrestrial species, their imaginations can work with few limitations. They can vary the physical constraints set by the planet, the number of...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 50, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed* Last fall, the University of South Carolina Press approached Mack Hassler and me about continuing our book Political Science Fiction in a "print on demand" format. Instead of producing 1000 copies to sit in the...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 32, Issue 1)JON A. SHIELDS'S ESSAY "IN Praise of the Values Voter" [WQ, Autumn '07] provides a useful corrective to critics who believe that conservative religious voters ate irrational and dangerous. But like many correctives, it...
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From: Journal of Popular Culture[In the following essay, Wilcox argues that Auel's works can be considered feminist.] The Clan of the Cave Bear and the three other novels in Jean Auel's Earth's Children series are surprising bestsellers. They blend...
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From: Journal of Popular CultureThe Clan of the Cave Bear and the three other novels in Jean Auel's Earth's Children series are surprising best-sellers. They blend carefully researched and detailed accounts of the making of flint tools, the...
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From: ExtrapolationMany science fiction writers attempt to create plausible future worlds by extrapolating scientific, technological, and social trends into the future. Such extrapolations are often quickly out of date, since scientific...
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From: ExtrapolationMany science fiction writers attempt to create plausible future worlds by extrapolating scientific, technological, and social trends into the future. Such extrapolations are often quickly out of date, since scientific...
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From: Journal of Popular Culture[(essay date Winter 1994) In the following essay, Wilcox argues that Auel's works can be considered feminist.] The Clan of the Cave Bear and the three other novels in Jean Auel's Earth's Children series are surprising...
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From: Political Science FictionFor who ought to be more faithful than a man entrusted with the safety of his country and sworn to defend it with the last drop of his blood?Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of War. Probably Robert A. Heinlein's most...
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From: New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Farrell notes that “unlike Tolkien,” Miéville “does not believe that fantasy is divorced from reality—while it is not subordinate to the mundane, it draws its resonance from its...
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From: Political Science Fiction[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Franko analyzes the portrayal of individuality and community in utopian works by Wells and Ursula K. Le Guin. She asserts that both novels are fundamentally concerned with the...
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From: New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Jackson and Heilman analyze how the society of Banks’s fictional Culture interacts with outsiders. The authors argue that by portraying hypothetical intercultural interactions...
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From: New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction[(essay date 2008) In this essay, Decker contends that E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" offers a warning regarding the detrimental effects of a modern, industrialized society, employing as evidence thematic...
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From: New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Raiford interprets the social situation of robots as a metaphor for the experience of African Americans in Asimov's The Bicentennial Man and I, Robot, and the television shows...
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From: New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Bergethon draws upon Asimov’s writings about social science fiction to examine the ways in which science and science fiction influence each other.] In concluding his 1953...
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From: New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Klapcsik examines fictional dystopian political and social situations, urban utopias, and apocalyptic and postapocalyptic societies in Dick’s novels.] Science fiction...
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From: New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Causo examines Ramos’s dystopian novella O Outro Lado do Protocolo (1985), which he considers a work of science fiction with metafictional devices such as an untrustworthy...
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From: New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Decker discusses Forster's "The Machine Stops" as a parable that speculates on the effects of modernity on Great Britain.] Fredric Jameson has argued that utopian narratives...