CARL FREEDMAN is Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University, author of many articles and of George Orwell: A Study in Ideology and Literary Form (1988), and recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association's 1999 Pioneer Award.
"[An] important volume . . . [Freedman] writes intriguingly about
affinities between science fiction and historical fiction and makes
useful observations about parallels between science fiction and
utopian fiction . . . His concluding speculations about the future
of both critical theory and science fiction are judicious and
restrained. A valuable addition to the slim collection of
groundbreaking critical works on science fiction."--Choice
"[An] important volume . . . [Freedman] writes intriguingly about
affinities between science fiction and historical fiction and makes
useful observations about parallels between science fiction and
utopian fiction . . . His concluding speculations about the future
of both critical theory and science fiction are judicious and
restrained. A valuable addition to the slim collection of
groundbreaking critical works on science fiction."--Choice
"Full of sharp insights . . . an ambitious book . . . fans who . .
. ponder about sf's links with wider bodies of thought and
conversation will find it extremely useful."--Foundation:
International Review of Science Fiction
"Freedman's intelligent championing of Joanna Russ's The Two of
Them - surely the finest novel written in English in the present
tense - is worth the price of admission. And there are many other
things of interest here."--Samuel R. Delany
"Both those who agree with Carl Freedman's bold claim that there
are significant overlaps between Science Fiction and critical
theory or Marxist socialism, and those who do not, would do well to
ponder his ingenious argument. For it is buttressed by sympathetic
analyses of the masterpieces, from More and Wells right down to a
major focus on Lem, Dick, LeGuin, Russ, and Delany.""--Darko Suvin,
McGill University
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