Histories of the Future

Studies in Fact, Fantasy and Science Fiction

• Author(s): Alan Sandison,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 202
• ISBN_10: 1403919291
  ISBN_13: 9781403919298
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Social Science / General , Fiction / General , Social Science / Media Studies , Social Science / Sociology / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines some of the ways in which writers, artists, film-makers, strategists and political thinkers have imagined the future over the last two centuries. Although a number of contributions discuss 'mainstream' science fiction, the collection's emphasis is not on any single genre, but rather on the ways in which different histories - technological, cultural, military, ideological - generate and inform different modes of speculation about things to come. These histories also disclose that our patterns of expectation are much influenced by our relationship to the past.