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Abstract
One of the few points critics and readers can agree upon when discussing the fiction popularly known as New Space Opera – a recent subgenre movement of science fiction – is its canny engagement with contemporary cultural politics in the age of globalisation. This book avers that the complex political allegories of New Space Opera respond to the recent cultural phenomenon known as neoliberalism, which entails the championing of the deregulation and privatisation of social services and programmes in the service of global free-market expansion. Providing close readings of the evolving New Space Opera canon and cultural histories and theoretical contexts of neoliberalism as a regnant ideology of our times, this book conceptualises a means to appreciate this thriving movement of popular literature.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | i | ||
| Title Page | iv | ||
| Copyright | v | ||
| Series Editors' Preface | vi | ||
| Contents | viii | ||
| Acknowledgements | x | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| 1: The Neoliberal Masters of the Universe: The Origin of New Space Opera in Samuel R. Delany’s Nova and M. John Harrison's Centauri Device and Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy | 43 | ||
| 2: 'Moments in the Fall': Neoliberal Globalism and Utopian Socialist Desire in Ken MacLeod's 'Fall Revolution' Quartet and Iain M. Banks's 'Culture' Series | 87 | ||
| 3: Global Feminism and Neoliberal Crisis in Gwyneth Jones's 'Aleutian Trilogy' | 127 | ||
| 4: 'Archipelagoes of Stars': Caribbean Cosmopolitics in Postcolonial SF | 155 | ||
| Works cited | 189 | ||
| Notes | 205 | ||
| Index | 219 |