Postmodern science fiction and temporal imagination
By: Elana Gomel.
Series: Continuum literary studies
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781441123954
Subjects: Science fiction -- History and criticism; Time in literature; Postmodernism (Literature)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Time enough for world; title: Time machines: H.G. Wells and the invention of postmodernity; title: Strangled by the time loop: paradoxes of determinism; title: 'My name is might-have-been': contingency, counterfactuals and moral choice; title: Everyday apocalypse: the ethics and aesthetics of the end of time; title: Conclusion: Beyond millennium.