Sherryl Vint, "Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Is Climate Change Part of the Utopian Tradition?
In one of your chapters, you talk about the utopian tradition doyou. Does it feel like s f is becoming more distopian now, as with climate change and the like no, i don't think. There's always been a catastrophe that science fiction is narrating, right? So, i mean, destopia was incredibly dominant in the immediate post war period. All the futures that seemed imaginable were futures of like post nuclear war, wasteland apocalypse.
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