Science Fiction and socialism have always had a close relationship.
Clarke Award for Perdido Street Station (2000) and Iron Council (2004), the British Fantasy Award for The Scar (2002), and the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book for Un Lun Dun (2007)..
He won the Arthur C.
CHINA MIEVILLE is an independent researcher and novelist.
He is the author of Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City (2005) and The Cinema of John Sayles (2008), and coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009).
About the Author: MARK Bould teaches film and literature at the University of the West of England.
Burling, Carl Freedman, Darren Jorgensen, Rob Latham, Iris Luppa, Andrew Milner, John Rieder, Steven Shaviro, Sherryl Vint, and Phillip Wegner.
Contributors include Matthew Beaumont, William J.
Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken MacLeod, and Charles Stross.
Dick, and Thomas Disch to Ursula K.
Wells, Philip K.
G.
The volume covers a rich variety of examples from Weimar cinema to mainstream Hollywood films, and novelists from Jules Verne, H.
Red Planets is an accessible and lively account, which makes an ideal introduction to anyone interested in the politics of Science fiction.
Many Science Fiction novelists and filmmakers have used the genre to examine explicit or implicit Marxist concerns.
Science Fiction and socialism have always had a close relationship
