Andrew Milner is Emeritus Professor at Monash University, Australia. His publications include Locating Science Fiction (2012), Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism (2018), (with J. R. Burgmann) Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach (2020).Peter Murphy is Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University and James Cook University, Australia. His publications include The Political Economy of Prosperity: Successful Societies and Productive Cultures (2020), The Collective Imagination: The Creative Spirit of Free Societies (2012) and Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (2004).David Roberts is Emeritus Professor, School of Languages and Cultures, Monash University, Australia. His publications include History of the Present: The Contemporary and its Culture (2021), The Total Work of Art in European Modernism (2011) and Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (2004).

• IntroductionPart One: From the Epic to Science Fiction, David Roberts1. From Epic to Novel2. From the Novel to Science Fiction3. A Theory of Science Fiction4. The God in the MachinePart Two: Science Fiction and the Historical Novel, Andrew Milner5. Lukács, the Historical Novel and Science Fiction6. Climate Fiction as the Future Historical NovelPart Three: Epic Science Fiction, Peter Murphy7. The Hidden God8. GalaxiaPart Four: World Science Fiction, Andrew Milner 9. History or apocalypse?ConclusionBibliography Index

Innovative, provocative, and at a level of intellectual seriousness far too rare. ... It should stand as a striking and essential contribution to the long-running debate about sf and form.

Andrew Milner is Emeritus Professor at Monash University, Australia. His publications include Locating Science Fiction (2012), Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism (2018), (with J. R. Burgmann) Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach (2020).Peter Murphy is Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University and James Cook University, Australia. His publications include The Political Economy of Prosperity: Successful Societies and Productive Cultures (2020), The Collective Imagination: The Creative Spirit of Free Societies (2012) and Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (2004).David Roberts is Emeritus Professor, School of Languages and Cultures, Monash University, Australia. His publications include History of the Present: The Contemporary and its Culture (2021), The Total Work of Art in European Modernism (2011) and Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (2004).

• IntroductionPart One: From the Epic to Science Fiction, David Roberts1. From Epic to Novel2. From the Novel to Science Fiction3. A Theory of Science Fiction4. The God in the MachinePart Two: Science Fiction and the Historical Novel, Andrew Milner5. Lukács, the Historical Novel and Science Fiction6. Climate Fiction as the Future Historical NovelPart Three: Epic Science Fiction, Peter Murphy7. The Hidden God8. GalaxiaPart Four: World Science Fiction, Andrew Milner 9. History or apocalypse?ConclusionBibliography Index

Innovative, provocative, and at a level of intellectual seriousness far too rare. ... It should stand as a striking and essential contribution to the long-running debate about sf and form.

Andrew Milner is Emeritus Professor at Monash University, Australia. His publications include Locating Science Fiction (2012), Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism (2018), (with J. R. Burgmann) Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach (2020).Peter Murphy is Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University and James Cook University, Australia. His publications include The Political Economy of Prosperity: Successful Societies and Productive Cultures (2020), The Collective Imagination: The Creative Spirit of Free Societies (2012) and Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (2004).David Roberts is Emeritus Professor, School of Languages and Cultures, Monash University, Australia. His publications include History of the Present: The Contemporary and its Culture (2021), The Total Work of Art in European Modernism (2011) and Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (2004).

• IntroductionPart One: From the Epic to Science Fiction, David Roberts1. From Epic to Novel2. From the Novel to Science Fiction3. A Theory of Science Fiction4. The God in the MachinePart Two: Science Fiction and the Historical Novel, Andrew Milner5. Lukács, the Historical Novel and Science Fiction6. Climate Fiction as the Future Historical NovelPart Three: Epic Science Fiction, Peter Murphy7. The Hidden God8. GalaxiaPart Four: World Science Fiction, Andrew Milner 9. History or apocalypse?ConclusionBibliography Index

Innovative, provocative, and at a level of intellectual seriousness far too rare. ... It should stand as a striking and essential contribution to the long-running debate about sf and form.