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In a world in which political opportunity and liberation seem far away, the genre of science fiction grows in cultural importance and popularity. The contributo
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While students and general readers typically cannot relate to esoteric definitions of science fiction, they readily understand the genre as a literature that ch
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Political Science Fiction
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New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction
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Surveying the vast expanse of politically-charged science fiction, this book posits that the defining dilemma for these tales rests in whether identity and mean