ENG 503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Speculative Fiction, New Worlds (Magazine), New Weird

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 503
• Professor: David Copeland

Document Summary

Some utopias are outside of time: how does it depart from conventional utopia, narrative form, time, imperfection, politics. Book about people who are in conflict with the authorities: new wave is a term, associated with two factors. A group of writers who emerge from britain and america in the. 60"s who react against the hard sf" of the previous 30 yrs and at the same time seek. Wants to redefine sf as speculative fiction. Resulting in an important revitalization of literature : new weird, combines speculative sf. Hard sf such as cyborgs- remades in perdido: and aspects of horror fiction. Others also hate tolkien: wrote to reverse tolkien"s work. See: roger luckhurst"s science fiction (cambridge: polity press, 2005),