Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics

Darko Suvin is Professor Emeritus at McGill University and Fellow of the Royal Society ofCanada. He is the author of numerous books and hundreds of essays on topics in utopianismand science fiction, comparative literature, dramaturgy, theory of literature, theatre and culturaltheory. He is also the author of three volumes of poetry.Eric D. Smith is Professor of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the authorof Globalization, Utopia, and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope and manyessays on postcolonial literature, Modern British literature, and popular cinema.

• Contents: Volume I: Preliminary Theses on Allegory (1977) – The Moon as a Mirror to Man: Or, Lessons of Selenography (1969) – Significant Themes in Soviet Criticism of Science Fiction to 1965 (1969) – The SF Novel in 1969 (1970) – Against Common Sense: Levels of SF Criticism (1972) – A, B, and C: The Significant Context of SF: A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (1973) – Four Worries on Science Fiction Contexts (1970–1975) – James Blish, 1921–1975 (1975) – On Philip K. Dick – On Ursula K. Le Guin – On the Strugatsky Brothers – For a Social Theory of Science Fiction: Programmatic Reflections (1977–1988) – with Marc Angenot: Editorial of Science-Fiction Studies (1979) – with Marc Angenot: Not Only But Also: Reflections on Cognitions and Ideology in SF and SF Criticism (1979) – Three World Paradigms for SF: Asimov, Yefremov, and Lem (1979–1993) – Pilgrim Award Speech for the SF Research Association (1979) – A Brief Valedictory on Stepping Down (1981) – Volume II: Playful Cognizing, or Technical Errors in Harmonyville: The SF of Johanna and Günter Braun (1981 and 1987) – The Science-Fiction Novel as Epic Narration: For a Fusion of «Formal» and «Sociological» Analysis (1980–1985) – with Eike Barmeyer and Dieter Hasselblatt: A Discussion of Stanisław Lem’s SF Radio-Drama Do You Exist Mr Johns? (1982) – Narrative Logic, Ideological Domination, and the Range of Science Fiction: A Hypothesis with a Test Case (1982) – Science Fiction: Metaphor, Parable, and　Chronotope (With the Bad Conscience of Reaganism) (1984) – with Marc Angenot: On «Post-Modernist» Political Impotence and the Horizons of Fiction and SF: A Response to Professor Fekete’s «Five Theses» (1988) – Science Fiction: A Basic Sketch (1987–1994) – Utopia in the Asian Eighties: Six Songlets (1983–1988) – Visions Off Yamada (1988) – Thinking Worlds of a Liminal Shintoist Cybermarxist: Five Interviews (1987–1995) – Counter-Projects: William Morris and the SF of the 1880s (1988) – We’ve Met the Aliens and They Are Us: Weinbaum’s Parables of Class (1993–2010) – Notes and Memories on Science Fiction – With Sober, Estranged Eyes (1998) – SF Parables of Mutation and Cloning as/and Cognition (2002).