M. KEITH BOOKER is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas./e His many books include The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: Fiction as Social Criticism (1994), Dystopian Fiction: A Theory and Research Guide (1994), Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction: Carnival, Dialogism, and History (1995), The Modern British Novel of the Left: A Research Guide (1998), The Modern American Novel of the Left: A Research Guide (1999), Film and the American Left: A Research Guide (1999), and Ulysses, Capitalism, and Colonialism: Reading Joyce after the Cold War (2000), all available from Greenwood Press.

• Introduction Politics in the American Science-Fiction Novel, 1946-1964: Science Fiction as Social Criticism The Beginning or the End?: Post-Holocaust Novels and Films, 1946-1964 We're There and They're Here!: Space Exploration and Alien Invasion Films of the Long 1950s The Creature from the Cold War: Science-Fiction Monster Movies of the Long 1950s References Index

M. KEITH BOOKER is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas./e His many books include The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: Fiction as Social Criticism (1994), Dystopian Fiction: A Theory and Research Guide (1994), Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction: Carnival, Dialogism, and History (1995), The Modern British Novel of the Left: A Research Guide (1998), The Modern American Novel of the Left: A Research Guide (1999), Film and the American Left: A Research Guide (1999), and Ulysses, Capitalism, and Colonialism: Reading Joyce after the Cold War (2000), all available from Greenwood Press.

• Introduction Politics in the American Science-Fiction Novel, 1946-1964: Science Fiction as Social Criticism The Beginning or the End?: Post-Holocaust Novels and Films, 1946-1964 We're There and They're Here!: Space Exploration and Alien Invasion Films of the Long 1950s The Creature from the Cold War: Science-Fiction Monster Movies of the Long 1950s References Index

M. KEITH BOOKER is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas./e His many books include The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: Fiction as Social Criticism (1994), Dystopian Fiction: A Theory and Research Guide (1994), Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction: Carnival, Dialogism, and History (1995), The Modern British Novel of the Left: A Research Guide (1998), The Modern American Novel of the Left: A Research Guide (1999), Film and the American Left: A Research Guide (1999), and Ulysses, Capitalism, and Colonialism: Reading Joyce after the Cold War (2000), all available from Greenwood Press.

• Introduction Politics in the American Science-Fiction Novel, 1946-1964: Science Fiction as Social Criticism The Beginning or the End?: Post-Holocaust Novels and Films, 1946-1964 We're There and They're Here!: Space Exploration and Alien Invasion Films of the Long 1950s The Creature from the Cold War: Science-Fiction Monster Movies of the Long 1950s References Index