Article: De Witt Douglas Kilgore. Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space.(Book Review)

De Witt Douglas Kilgore. Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 294 pp. $55.00 (cloth)

"Astrofuturism had a tremendous impact on the twentieth century," De Witt Douglas Kilgore states in his Introduction, and it "continues to shape our perception of the present and our expectations of the future" (30). Not many would disagree with that, certainly. As its subtitle suggests, Kilgore's Astrofuturism sets itself no mean task, assessing as it does the interplay of science, race, and utopian visions in the formation of post-World War II science-fiction writing. In its principal focus, as ...

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