Postmodern science fiction and temporal imagination
By: Elana Gomel
Publisher: Continuum Literary Studies
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781441144027; 9781441178831; 9781441146861
Subjects: Postmodernism (Literature); Science fiction; History and criticism; Time in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Time enough for world; title: The 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.