Author Archives: darkosuvin

ON WILLIAM GIBSON AND CYBERPUNK SF AS UTOPIA VS. IDEOLOGY (1989-91, 6,875 words)

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[WITH MARC ANGENOT] ON ‘POST-MODERNIST’ POLITICAL IMPOTENCE AND THE HORIZONS OF FICTION AND SF: A RESPONSE TO PROFESSOR FEKETE’S ‘FIVE THESES’ (1988, 4,920 words)

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE (WITH MARC ANGENOT) D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. Oxford: P. Lang, 2021.

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LOCUS, HORIZON, AND ORIENTATION:  THE CONCEPT OF POSSIBLE WORLDS AS A KEY TO UTOPIAN STUDIES (1989, 8,260 words)

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COUNTER-PROJECTS: WILLIAM MORRIS AND THE SF OF THE 1880s (1988, 4,310 words)

COUNTER-PROJECTS: WILLIAM MORRIS AND THE SF OF THE 1880’S (1988) D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. Oxford: P. Lang, 2021. ch28

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VISIONS OFF YAMADA (poem, 1988)

D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. Oxford: P. Lang, 2021.

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POEMS OF DOUBT AND HOPE 1983-88 (2,325 words)

a/ 12 Diary Poems of the Mid-1980s

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[WITH CHARLES ELKINS] ON TEACHING SF CRITICALLY (1979-88, 4,200 words)

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UTOPIA IN THE ASIAN EIGHTIES: FIVE SONGLETS (1983-89, 800 words)

D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. Oxford: P. Lang, 2021.ch25

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FOR A SOCIAL THEORY OF SCIENCE FICTION: PROGRAMMATIC REFLECTIONS (1977-88, 9,140 words)

D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. Oxford: P. Lang, 2021.chapter 12

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PREFACE TO THE JAPANESE EDITION OF “METAMORPHOSES OF SCIENCE FICTION” (1987, 2,700 words)

PREFACE TO THE JAPANESE EDITION OF “METAMORPHOSES OF SCIENCE FICTION” (1987) Darko Suvin 1. This book was first conceived and worked upon in Yugoslavia in the 1950s and 60s; it was written in its present form in North America and … Continue reading

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