Darko Suvin Book order

This major two-volume collection presents Darko Suvin's critical meditations on science fiction and utopia from the late 1960s through the early years of the new millennium.

Focusing on critical reflections, this comprehensive two-volume collection showcases Darko Suvin's insights into science fiction and utopia spanning from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. It excludes his key monographs, emphasizing his evolving thoughts and analyses on the genre's relationship with societal and cultural themes over several decades.

Suvin's 'X-Ray' of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism

Returning to print for the first time since the 1980s, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Darko Suvin’s paradigm-setting definition of SF as «the literature of cognitive estrangement» established a robust theory of the genre that continues to spark fierce debate, as well as inspiring myriad intellectual descendants and disciples. Suvin’s centuries-spanning history of the genre links SF to a long tradition of utopian and satirical literatures crying out for a better world than this one, showing how SF and the imagination of utopia are now forever intertwined. In addition to the 1979 text of the book, this edition contains three additional essays from Suvin that update, expand and reconsider the terms of his original intervention, as well as a new introduction and preface that situate the book in the context of the decades of SF studies that have followed in its wake.

Das Zentralthema der Anthologie »Andere Welten, andere Meere« ist die Utopie: ein ethisches und philosophisches Konzept innerhalb der Science-Fiction-Traditionen, das in englischen und amerikanischen Werken kaum vertreten ist. Der Herausgeber, Prof. Dr. Darko Suvin, ist 1930 in Zagreb geboren und hat sich inzwischen nicht nur in seinem Heimatland, sondern auch in Amerika und Kanada als Literaturwissenschaftier, Kritiker und Essayist einen Namen gemacht. Er ist zugleich Experte auf zwei verschiedenen Gebieten der Literatur - zeitgenössisches Theater und wissenschaftlich-utopische Literatur - und hat in dieser Eigenschaft als Dozent an den Universitäten von Zagreb, Massachusetts und Indiana gelehrt.