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Article: Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia. (Book Reviews).
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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Patrick Parrinder, ed. Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000. viii + 312 pp. 35 [pounds sterling] (hb), 16.95 [pounds sterling] (pb).
THE BUSY TITLE of this collection is designed to jostle an unruly crowd of essays into a well-defined, if roomy, enclosure. The pieces range from studies of single authors to broadly conceived assessments of the relations between science fiction and utopian thought and writing; from a chronicle of socialist revolutionary utopian manifestoes to a mischievous feminist examination into the discourse of cloning. Patrick Parrinder ...