Issue Seventeen

August 2009

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Front

Contents

Editorial

Demanding the Impossible: Utopia, Dystopia and Science-Fiction

On Failure and Revolution in Utopian Fiction and Science Fiction of the 1960s and 1970s
Darren Jorgensen

The flight from history: from H G Wells to Doctor Who – and back again
Alec Charles

Iain M Banks, Ernst Bloch and Utopian Interventions
Michał Kulbicki

“Extreme Possibilities”: Mapping “the sea of time and space” in J G Ballard’s Pacific fictions
Simon Sellars

Spectres of Orwell, or, The Impossible Demand of the Subject
David Jack

Sarah Palin’s JerUSAlem and Pentecostal faith: a hysteric symptom of American utopianism?
Sarah Curtis

Historical Optimism: the Use of Utopia in the Enlightenment Era
Amy Crawford

Book Reviews

Paul Bogard, ed. Let There Be Night. Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 2008.
Geoff Berry

Michel Faber. The Fire Gospel Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2008.
Geoff Berry

Hent de Vries and Lawrence E. Sullivan, eds. Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006.
Clayton Crockett, ed. Religion and Violence in a Secular World: Toward a New Political Theology. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2006.
Matthew Chrulew

Robert Bond and Jenny Bavidge, eds. City Visions: The Work of Iain Sinclair. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
Jeannette Baxter. J G Ballard’s Surrealist Imagination: Spectacular Authorship. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2009.
Simon Sellars

Creative Writing

a table set for thousands #2
Ashley Capes

Two Poems
Elisabeth Hames-Brooks