Category Archives: 1. SF & UTOPIANISM

THIS IS A DESCENDING CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, FROM 2022 BACKWARDS. REASON: ALL POSITIONS ARE HISTORICAL, AND THEY ARE BEST UNDERSTOOD IN CONNEXION WITH ITS MOMENT. LATER ENTRIES MAY MODIFY EARLIER POSITIONS.

WHERE ARE WE? HOW DID WE GET HERE? IS THERE ANY WAY OUT?:  OR, NEWS FROM THE NOVUM (1997-98, 16,430 words)

Posted on 15 April 1998 by darkosuvin
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NOTES AND MEMORIES ON SCIENCE FICTION (1995-98, 2,670 words)

Posted on 15 April 1998 by darkosuvin

NOTES AND MEMORIES ON SCIENCE FICTION;GOODBYE TO EXTRAPOLATION  (1995);SOME NOTES & MEMORIES ON DALE MULLEN’S MAIEUTICS  (1998). In D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. … Continue reading →

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THINKING WORLDS OF A LIMINAL SHINTOIST CYBERMARXIST: FIVE INTERVIEWS (1987-95, 27,300 words)

Posted on 12 April 1993 by darkosuvin

 SF and Theatre  Interview with Yamada Kazuko (1987)  SF and History, Cyberpunk, Russia…  Interview with Horst Pukallus (1989)  SF — Literature, Movies, Theatre, Polytheism  Interview with Liao Chao-yang  (1994)  An Interview with Takayuki Tatsumi  (1984)  ’I Have No Soul and … Continue reading →

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SCIENCE FICTION: A BASIC SKETCH (1987-94, 4,270 words)

Posted on 12 April 1993 by darkosuvin

SCIENCE FICTION: A BASIC SKETCH (1987-94) 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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THREE WORLD PARADIGMS FOR SF: ASIMOV, YEFREMOV, LEM (1979-93, 6,700 words)

Posted on 12 April 1993 by darkosuvin

THREE WORLD PARADIGMS FOR SF: ASIMOV, YEFREMOV, LEM (1979-93) 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 15

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

Posted on 11 April 1993 by darkosuvin
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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)

Posted on 11 April 1993 by darkosuvin

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)

Posted on 11 April 1993 by darkosuvin
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COUNTER-PROJECTS: WILLIAM MORRIS AND THE SF OF THE 1880s (1988, 4,310 words)

Posted on 11 April 1993 by darkosuvin

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)

Posted on 11 April 1993 by darkosuvin

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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