Visions and Revisions - (Re) constructing Science Fiction : (Re)constructing Science Fiction

Key to Abbreviations viii Acknowledgments ix Preface xi Swift, Zamyatin, and Orwell and the Language of Utopia 1(27) Generic Configurations of A Story of the Days to Come 28(21) Re-visions of The Time Machine 49(17) Stanislaw Lem's Futurological Congress as a Metageneric Text 66(13) Karel Capek's Can(n)on of Negation 79(35) Olaf Stapledon's Tragi-Cosmic Vision 114(21) C. S. Lewis and the Fictions of `Scientism' 135(15) Kurt Vonnegut, Historiographer of the Absurd: The Sirens of Titan 150(23) Jorge Luis Borges and the Labyrinths of Time 173(17) `Elsewhere Elsewhen Otherwise': Italo Calvino's Cosmicomic Tales 190(34) Ursula K. Le Guin and Time's Dispossession 224(26) Time Out of Joint: The World(s) of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle 250(34) Afterword: A Revisionary Construction of Genre, with Particular Reference to Science Fiction 284(28) Notes 312(76) Works Cited 388(13) Index 401