Roger Luckhurst
Abstract
This chapter states states that science fiction projects a future by the rational extrapolation of the present: it is thus a critical, potentially utopian, but always political genre. The chapter looks into some Gothic science fiction writings and further discusses the hybridity and the spatial zones of the genre.
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This chapter states states that science fiction projects a future by the rational extrapolation of the present: it is thus a critical, potentially utopian, but always political genre. The chapter looks into some Gothic science fiction writings and further discusses the hybridity and the spatial zones of the genre.
Key concepts: Hybridity, Politics, Extrapolation, Literature, Fantasy, History, Art, Aesthetics