Introduction: Apocalypse Now and Then
Part 1: The Nineteenth Century to the Postwar Disaster Novels
1. Modern Apocalypses and Modernism: Enter Science Fiction2. The
Postwar Disaster Novels: Apocalypse Contained
Part 2: Post-Imperial Subjects
3. Style and Immolation: J. G. Ballard 4. Apocalypse in
1969: Brian Aldiss and Angela Carter5. Darker Imaginations, Harder
Lessons: Anna Kavan, Doris Lessing
Part 3: Resistance and Revision
6. Apocalypse, Comedy, Multiplicity: Arno Schmidt, Anthony
Burgess, Ursula K. Le Guin7. Apocalypse and Everyday Life: Tom
Perrotta, Douglas Coupland8. Apocalypse in the Contemporary World
City: Don DeLillo, China Miéville9. Beyond Apocalypse: Two
Paths: Jeff VanderMeer, Kim Stanley Robinson
Christopher Palmer is a Research Associate in the School of English at La Trobe University.
“The individual readings in the book are often illuminating,
particularly in the discussion of points of style, an issue that is
often overlooked in discussion of sf texts.”
Connor Pitetti, Science Fiction Studies
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