Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions

by Fredric Jameson (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2007

  $40.75

  This is a brilliant study of utopia and science fiction, from Thomas More to Philip K. Dick, by the master literary critic. Archaeologies of the Future , Jameson's most substantial work since Postmodernism , investigates the development of the Utopian form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of Utopian thinking in a post-Communist age. The relationship between utopia and science fiction is explored through the representations of otherness...alien life and alien worlds...and a study of the works of Philip K. Dick, Ursula LeGuin, William Gibson, Brian Aldiss, Kim Stanley Robinson and more.