Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Aliens (May 13, 2013)
Hungary (last updated September 13, 2012)
- Babits, Mihaly
- Balint, Emery
- Dalos, Gyorgy
- Darnay, Arsen
- DeMaitre, Edmund
- de Polnay, Peter
- De Wohl, Louis
- Detre, Professor L
- Ferenczy, Arpad
- Gopcevic, Spiridion
- Herzl, Theodor
- Jokai, Mor
- Karinthy, Frigyes
- Koestler, Arthur
- Kuczka, Peter
- Madách, Imre
- Mikes, George
- Pal, George
- Papp, Desiderio
- Ray, Robert
- Szathmári, Sándor
- Szilard, Leo
- Tabori, Paul
Orb, The (August 21, 2012)
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
nooSFere website (French-based with multilingual access)
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
SF Forward (blog)
conceptual fiction (blog)
The Sinister Science (blog): “sf & critical theory join forces to destroy the present” [also Situationism]
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations (blog) [on SF published 1945-1985]
Worlds Without End blog
Europa SF - The European Speculative Fiction
portal
Hungary SF summary 2012 (08/10/2012)
Contemporary Hungarian SF novels - SFmag.hu by Cristian Tamas (24/09/2013)
Speculative Fiction in Translation
Translated SF
Non-English SF, available in translation
InterNova: International Science Fiction
Ambiutopia (Filosofia: An Encyclopedia of Russian Thought)
Russian Science Fiction & Fantasy
Russian and E European SF Syllabus
Russian Utopia: a depository. Ivan Leonidov, Museum of Paper Architecture
Utopia and Utopianism (multilingual journal)
Luminist Archives
Downloadable science fiction, fantasy, weird fiction, spiritual texts, pulps,
fanzines, comic books, periodicals, et al
Free Speculative Fiction Online
A Virtual Introduction to Science Fiction (Online Toolkit for Teaching SF)
The Science Fiction Foundation
infinity plus (1997-2007)
EMP Museum - Music + Sci-fi + Pop Culture
io9: Science and entertainment from the world of tomorrow: science fiction
Great Lost Manuscripts of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Classic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films That You Can Watch on YouTube
Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America
Science Fiction Poetry Association
Inventions and Ideas from Science Fiction Books and Movies at Technovelgy.com
Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition by William G. Contento (last updated March 18, 2015)
Sargent, Lyman Tower. Utopian Literature in English: An Annotated Bibliography from 1516 to the Present. State College, PA: Penn State Libraries Open Publishing, 2016 and continuing.
Utopia and Dystopia (@ Internet Sacred Text Archive)
Acheron
LV-426: science fiction
Envisioning unreal utopiaea (17 June 2010)
Potpourri of Science Fiction Literature
Extrapolation (Pre-2012) 1979-2013
Science Fiction Review [et sim.]
Galactic Journey - 55 years ago: Science Fact and Fiction
Utopia and democracy — An academic blog (East Central Europe)
Czechia 2020-2021 — Global AI Narratives: Central and Eastern Europe
Stalin’s “Loss of Sensation”: Subversive Impulses in Soviet Science-Fiction of the Great Terror by David Christopher
Trotsky and the Iron Heel (1937)
Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980?)
Sci Fi Bytes: And the First Sci Fi TV Series Was . . . by johnnyjay, Cancelled Sci Fi, August 26, 2020 [Karel Čapek’s R.U.R.]
Earliest story with Esperanto future
Zvi Har’El’s Jules Verne Collection
Academic Scholarship on Jules Verne by Arthur B. Evans
Functions of Science in French Fiction by Arthur B. Evans
Stanisław Lem: Socio-Political Sci-Fi, by Carl Tighe, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 94, No. 3, July 1999, pp. 758-774. Also at JSTOR.
Socialism and Democracy, # 42 (Volume 20, No. 3): Socialism And Social Critique In Science Fiction [Science fiction + Afrofuturism]
See also Afrofuturism section below
Science Fiction and the Cultural Logic of Early Post Postmodernism by Marleen S. Barr
Imagining the Future: Utopia and Dystopia, special issue of Arena Journal, no. 25/26 (2006).
Note: Maurice Blanchot, "The Proper Use of Science Fiction" [1959], pp. 375- . And see:
Blanchot's "The Proper Use of Science Fiction" (1959) (Acheron LV-426)
Books in Review: Science Fiction Studies, #105 (Volume 35, Part 2), July 2008
Science Fiction as the Mythology of the Future by Tom Lombardo
Science Fiction: The Evolutionary Mythology of the Future by Tom Lombardo
Young Adult Dystopia Novels, “Just Browsing”, Orem Public Library, February 26, 2013
Utopia, Dystopia, Heterotopias: From Lu Xun to Liu Cixin by David Der-wei Wang, translated by Emma Xu. Lecture, Peking University, May 17, 2011.
Kang Youwei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Note Da Tongshu (1935), a modern Chinese utopia.
Émile Souvestre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Author of dystopian science fiction novel Le Monde Tel Qu'il Sera [The World As It Shall Be], 1846.
Robots In Love (A Modern Retelling) by Linda Imbler, DM du Jour, January 9, 2018
John
Wilkins & Menace from the Moon [Dumain blog]
[Note John Wilkins as character]
Story of the Week: Moxon’s Master (Ambrose Bierce)
The
Baroque Cycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
3 vols., 2003-4, by Neal Stephenson [Note Newton, Leibniz, John Wilkins]
Speculations of the Changes, Likely to be Discovered in the Earth and Moon, by Their Respective Inhabitants, by Monsieur Auzout (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1753)
Future
perfect by Iwan Rhys Morus, Aeon, 10 December, 2014
Social progress, high-speed transport and electricity everywhere - how the Victorians
invented the future
“Deflating Hyperspace” by David Pacchioli
The New Utopians
by Jeet Heer
(Kim Stanley Robinson and the novelists who want to build a better future through
science fiction.)
The New Republic, November 9, 2015
Anarchism and science fiction: A reading list (Ben Beck)
Marxism and Fantasy, special issue of Historical Materialism, vol. 10, no. 4 (2002).
Twenty-Two Answers and Two Postscripts: An Interview with Stanislaw Lem, by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., translated by Marek Lugowski, Science Fiction Studies #40 (Volume 13, Part 3), November 1986
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. "Lem, Central Europe, and the Genre of Technological Empire," in Peter Swirski, ed., Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem (McGill U. Press, 2006), pp. 130-152.
Ares
Magazine
“Bringing you 80 pages of amazing new science fiction and a complete board
game in a bi-monthly periodical.”
(Kickstarter campaign)
MOSF Journal of Science Fiction (Museum of Science Fiction), Vol. 1, No. 1 (2016) -
The New York Review of Science Fiction (1988- )
Science Fiction Studies (1973- ): Selected articles:
The First Men on Mercury by Edwin Morgan & Tommy Smith, 2009 (4 min., 30 sec.).
Golem - based on the short story by Stanislaw Lem (video)
Lem: The Star Diaries (audio): 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28
Lem: The Star Diaries: 8th Voyage (audio)
Lem: The Star Diaries: 11th Voyage (audio)
A. L. Morton: Revolutions, Utopias, and Life in the English Radical Tradition by James Crossley (CenSAMM, 2024, video, 7:10 min.)
Aelita, silent sci-fi movie from 1924.
Aelita (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Aero NT-54 (1925), Russian silent film (61 min.). Have not found this film online.
Luch smerti (1925) [The Death Ray], Russian silent film, with English subtitles, 1st & last reels lost (extant film, 1 hr., 16 min.).
The Death Ray (1925 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Loss Of Sensation (1935), film, in Russian with English subtitles (1 hr., 26 min.).
Christopher, David. Stalin’s “Loss of Sensation”: Subversive Impulses in Soviet Science-Fiction of the Great Terror, MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, Volume 1, Issue 2, May 2016, pp. 18-35.
Cosmic Voyage (1936), film, in Russian with English subtitles (1 hr., 5 min.).
Algol (1920) (1:26:12) [configure for English subtitles]
Algol, The Tyranny Of Power (1:51:44) [with English subtitles]
Der Herr Der Welt (Master of the World) (1934) [this clip 4 min., 25 sec.], German film (90 min.).
Master of the World (1934 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Der schweigende Stern - The Silent Star (1960) (1:33:38) [unabridged original]
Based on Stanisław Lem’s novel The Astronauts; screenplay by Esperantist Jan Fethke (pseud. Jean Forge). American release, titled The First Spaceship on Venus is abridged and dubbed.
Gottfried Kolditz / Im Staub der Sterne 1976 [In the Dust of the Stars] (1:34:34)
Golem - based on the short story by Stanislaw Lem, film, in Polish (7 min., 40 sec.).
Bílá nemoc (The White Disease) | celý film | česká filmová klasika (1937), in Czech with English subtitles (1 hr., 44 min.). Based on the play by Karel Čapek.
Krakatit [1948 Czech film, no subtitles] (1:37:33). Based on the novel by Karel Čapek.
Voyage to the End of the Universe ("Ikarie XB 1" 1963) [1080p] - full movie with English subtitles. Based on the novel The Magellanic Cloud by Stanislaw Lem.
Hungarian science-fiction films: Four to see, two to watch for
First Proper Trailer For Hungarian Steampunk SciFi THELOMERIS, With Mark Hamill
Thelomeris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Meteo (Rare Hungarian Science-Fiction Film 1990 - Help Needed To Translate)
Key SF/utopian-related work: The Novel of the Next Century,
a.k.a. The Novel of the Coming Century; The Romance of the Coming
Century
(1872-1874). No English translation.
See also the story “Csalavér.” No English translation.
Mór Jókai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jókai, Mór (Encyclopedia of Science Fiction)
Chapter XIII: National Escapism: Jókai (in A History of Hungarian Literature From the Earliest Times to the mid-1970's) by Lóránt Czigány
JÓKAI Mór: The Novel of Next Century (1872 - 1874): Foreword
The Novel
of Next Century
Translated excerpts and chapter by chapter notes on Jókai Mór's
early Science Fiction novel.
Jókai Mór: A
jövo század regénye
(The Novel of Next Century in Hungarian)
Mór Jókai (1825-1904) | The Online Books Page
Jókai, Mór, 1825-1904: Project Gutenberg
Stanislaw Lem – The Official Site
Rok Lema (Lem 2021)
Czechia 2020-2021 — Global AI Narratives: Central and Eastern Europe
2. From Čapek to Lem: AI in Eastern European Science Fiction (15 January 2021)
Stanisław Lem: Socio-Political Sci-Fi, by Carl Tighe, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 94, No. 3, July 1999, pp. 758-774. Also at JSTOR.
Stanislaw Lem's fictitious criticism of nonexisting books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Golem - based on the short story by Stanislaw Lem (video)
Lem: The Star Diaries (audio): 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28
Lem: The Star Diaries: 8th Voyage (audio)
Lem: The Star Diaries: 11th Voyage (audio)
Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) by David Auerbach, Waggish, 4 April 2006
Unlearning Habitual Cosmologies: Reading Stanisław Lem at the event horizon by Bogna Konior
the morning reading: Extracts from Golem XIV [audio in German]
“Verstrand’s Extelopedia in 44 Magnetomes” [2 excerpts] by Stanislaw Lem
Stanislaw Lem on Alien Invasions
Stanislaw Lem in Przekrój Magazine
Lem, Stanislaw. Imaginary Magnitude, translated from the Polish by Marc E. Heine. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
Lem, Stanislaw. Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Franz Rottensteiner. New York: Harvest / HBJ, 1986.
CONTENTS Year of publication / original language Year of publication in English Introduction by Franz Rottensteiner
ix Reflections on My Life German 1984 1 On the Structural Analysis of Science Fiction 1970 / German 1970 31 Science Fiction: A Hopeless Case—with Exceptions 1972 / German 1973 45 Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans 1975 / Polish 1975 106 The Time-Travel Story and Related Matters of Science-Fiction Structuring 1970 / Polish 1974 136 Metafantasia: The Possibilities of Science Fiction 1970 / Polish 1981 161 Cosmology and Science Fiction German 1977 200 Todorov’s Fantastic Theory of Literature 1973 / Polish 1974 209 Unitas Oppositorum: The Prose of Jorge Luis Borges 1971 / German 1971 233 About the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic 1977 / Polish 1983 243 Bibliography 279 “Science Fiction: A Hopeless Case—with Exceptions" (pp. 45-105).
“Unitas Oppositorum: The Prose of Jorge Luis Borges,” pp. 233-242. See also Stanislaw Lem on Jorge Luis Borges (Borges 16).
Several essays by and about Lem can be found in Science Fiction Studies (see below).
By Stanislaw Lem
About Stanislaw Lem
"Lem, Central Europe, and the Genre of Technological Empire," in Peter Swirski, ed., Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem (McGill U. Press, 2006), pp. 130-152.
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (YouTube, audio, Radio Dave, 1:53:04)
Lemography: Stanislaw Lem in the Eyes of the World, edited by Peter Swirski and Waclaw M. Osadnik. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.
Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) en Esperanto
Josef Nesvadba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Josef Nesvadba - Summary Bibliography
Translated SF | Josef Nesvadba
Josef Nesvadba: stories: Questions for reading
Micromegas (1752), in Candide and Other Stories, by Voltaire, translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Pearson (Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 101-121.
Fiks, Yevgeniy. “In Edenia, a City of the Future,” In geveb [A Journal of Yiddish Studies], November 1, 2018.
Zingman, Kalman. “In the Future City of Edenia (Part 1),” translated by Jordan Finkin,. In geveb [A Journal of Yiddish Studies], April 2019.
Ignatius L. Donnelly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Caesar's Column (1890) (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
"'Some Unsuspected Author': Ignatius Donnelly and the Nineteenth-Century American Conspiracy Novel" by Alex Beringer
Ignatius Donnelly and the End of the World edited by Richard L. Meehan
Ignatius Donnelly, Prince of Cranks by J. M. Tyree, The Believer, August 2005 (vol. 3, no. 6).
A Home in Space by Edwin Morgan
The First Men on Mercury by Edwin Morgan
Astor, John Jacob. A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future. New York: D. Appleton, 1894.
A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future (1894) by Adam Green (The Public Domain Review).
Berdnyk, Oleś (Бердник, Олесь). Apostle of Immortality, translated from the Ukrainian by Yuri Tkach. Toronto; Chicago; Melbourne: Bayda Books, 1984. [From Soviet Ukraine.]
Boye, Karin. Kallocain; translated by Gustaf Lannestock, introduction by Richard B. Vowles. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1966.
Butler, Samuel. Erewhon. 1872. See section “The Book of the Machines.”
Flammarion, Camille. Omega: the Last Days of the World. New York: Cosmopolitan Publishing Company, 1894.
Omega: The Last Days of the World (1894) by Ned Pennant-Rea (The Public Domain Review).
Jerome, Jerome K. “The New Utopia” (1891).
Anderson, Perry. Arguments Within English Marxism: Utopias, from Arguments Within English Marxism, 1980.
Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, Jr. “What Do We Mean When We Say “Global Science Fiction”? Reflections on a New Nexus,” Science Fiction Studies, #118 (Volume 39, Part 2), November 2012, 478-494.
“Something’s Missing: A Discussion between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno on the Contradictions of Utopian Longing” (1964), in The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays, by Ernst Bloch, translated by Jack Zipes and Frank Mecklenburg (Cambridge, MA; London: The MIT Press, 1988), pp. 1-17.
Emerson, Roger I. “Utopia,” in Dictionary of the History of Ideas, vol. 4; Philip P. Wiener, Editor-in-chief (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973), pp. 458-465.
Gray, John. “War of the Words,” New Statesman, 14 June 2010.
Jameson, Frederic. “The Politics of Utopia,” New Left Review, new series no. 25, January-February 2004, pp. 35-54. Full article for subscribers only.
Kurz, Robert. Parables of Big Brother. 2003. Translated from the Spanish translation in February 2014. Translated from Portuguese to Spanish for Rebelión by Horacio Garetto. Portuguese version first published by Folha de São Paulo (Brazil) as “Parábolas do Meio-Irmão”. Originally published in German as “Wer ist ‘Big Brother’? George Orwell und die Kritik der Moderne”.
McGowan, Todd. ’Hegel and the Impossibility of the Future in Science Fiction Cinema’, Film-Philosophy, vol. 13, no. 1, 2009, pp. 16-37.
Marks de Marques, Eduardo. “From utopian hope to dystopian despair: late capitalism, transhumanism and the immanence of Marxist thought in contemporary dystopian novels” in Transculturalidade e De(s)colonialidade nos Estudos em Inglês no BraZil, 2014, pp. 257-285.
Newsinger, John. "Fantasy and revolution: an interview with China Miéville," International Socialism Journal, no. 88, Autumn 2000.
Pierce, J.J. Embryonic Science Fiction: Looking Forwards (The Seventy-Year Itch, July 14, 2013).
Robinson, Kim Stanley. "Remarks on Utopia in the Age of Climate Change," Arena Journal, Nov. 2011, Issue 35/36.
Sommerville, Bruce David. The Critical Reception of The Time Machine for The Speculations of H. G. Wells and T. H. Huxley. Thesis, February 1995.
Stock, Adam. Mid Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought. Doctoral thesis, Durham University, 2011.
Trotsky, Leon. Literature and Revolution, translated by Rose Strunsky. New York: Russell & Russell, 1957. See Chapter 6: Proletarian Culture and Proletarian Art. Note Cosmism.
Utopian Literature: A Selective Bibliography, by Denis Bruckmann, Laurent Portes, and Lyman Tower Sargent. New York Public Library.
The Best from the Rest of the World: European Science Fiction, edited by Donald A. Wollheim. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976.
The Best of World SF. Volume 1, edited by Lavie Tidhar. London: Head of Zeus / AdAstra [Bloomsbury], 2022.
The Best of World SF. Volume 2, edited by Lavie Tidhar. London: Head of Zeus / AdAstra [Bloomsbury], 2023.
The Best of World SF. Volume 3, edited by Lavie Tidhar. London: Head of Zeus / AdAstra [Bloomsbury], 2024.
Other Worlds, Other Seas; Science-Fiction Stories from Socialist Countries, selected, edited, and with a preface by Darko Suvin. New York: Random House, 1970.
Tales from the Planet Earth, created [compiled] by Frederik Pohl & Elizabeth Anne Hull. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986.
Future Fiction [site & publisher].
Alien Imaginations: Science Fiction and Tales of Transnationalism, edited by Ulrike Küchler, Silja Maehl, Graeme Stout; foreword by Dame Gillian Beer. New York: Bloomsbury Academy, 2015.
Alkon, Paul K. Origins of Futuristic Fiction. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
Avilés, Miguel A. Romiro; Davis, J. C.; eds. Utopian Moments: Reading Utopian Texts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.
Baccolini, Rafaella; Moylan, Tom; eds. Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination. New York: Routledge, 2003. Table of contents. Publisher description.
Beaumont, Matthew. The Spectre of Utopia: Utopian and Science Fictions at the Fin De Siècle. Bern; New York: Peter Lang, 2012. (Ralahine Utopian Studies; v. 12)
Beaumont, Matthew. Utopia, Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2005. (Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522; v. 7)
Bleiler, Everet F. Science-fiction, the Early Years: a Full Description of More Than 3,000 Science-Fiction Stories from Earliest Times to the Appearance of the Genre Magazines in 1930, with the assistance of Richard J. Bleiler. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1990.
Lynch, [John Gilbert] Bohun (1884-1928): Menace from the Moon
Bogdanov, Alexander. Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia, edited by Loren Graham and Richard Stites; translated by Charles Rougle. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1984.
Booker, M. Keith. The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: Fiction as Social Criticism. Westport; London: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Bould, Mark ; Mieville, China; eds. Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2009.
Cave, Stephen, Dihal, Kanta; Dillon, Sarah; eds. AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198846666.001.0001
See esp. Machines Like Us? Modernism and the Question of the Robot.
Claeys, Gregory. Dystopia: A Natural History: A Study of Modern Despotism, Its Antecedents, and Its Literary Diffractions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Claeys, Gregory. Searching for Utopia: The History of an Idea. New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2011.
Claeys, Gregory, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Claeys, Gregory; Sargent, Lyman Tower; eds. The Utopia Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1999. Publisher description.
Cordasco, Rachel S. Out of This World: Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, December 2021.
Czigányik, Zsolt, ed. Utopian Horizons: Ideology, Politics, Literature. Budapest; New York: Central European University [CEU] Press, 2017.
Elliott, Robert C.; Wegner, Philip E.; eds. The Shape of Utopia: Studies in a Literary Genre. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013. (Ralahine Utopian Studies; v. 10)
Ferns, Chris. Narrating Utopia. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999.
Fortunati, Vita; Trousson, Raymond; eds. Dictionary of Literary Utopias. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2000.
Freedman, Carl. Critical Theory and Science Fiction. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New England, 2000.
Gouldner, Alvin. Enter Plato: Classical Greece and the Origins of Social Theory. New York: Basic Books, 1965.
Griffin, Michael J.; Moylan, Tom; eds. Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice. Oxford; Bern; New York: Peter Lang, 2007. Table of contents.
Kakoudaki, Despina. Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People. New Brunswick, NJ; London: Rutgers University Press, 2014.
Karp, Masha. George Orwell and Russia. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Boynton, Owen. Between socialist promise and totalitarian threat, Meduza, May 12, 2023.
Kumar, Krishan. Utopia and Anti-utopia in Modern Times. Oxford, UK; New York: Blackwell, 1987.
Kumar, Krishan. Utopianism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
Kumar, Krishan; Bann, Stephen; eds. Utopias and the Millennium. London: Reaktion Books, 1993. Publisher description.
Jacoby, Russell. The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
Jacoby, Russell. Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
Jameson, Frederic. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. London; New York: Verso, 2005.
Malloch, Margaret, ed. Crime, Critique and Utopia. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Monleón, José. B. A Specter Is Haunting Europe: A Sociohistorical Approach to the Fantastic. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Morton, A. L. (Arthur Leslie). The English Utopia. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1952. (2nd ed., 1969)
Morus, Iwan Rhys. How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future. New York: Pegasus Books, 2022.
Moylan, Tom. Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination, edited by Raffaella Baccolini. Oxford; New York: Peter Lang, 2014.
Moylan, Tom. Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. Publisher description.
Moylan, Tom; Baccolini, Raffaella; eds. Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming. Bern; New York: Peter Lang, 2007.
The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, edited by Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler and Sherryl Vint. 2nd ed. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2024.
Parrinder, Patrick. Utopian Literature and Science: From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Pordzik, Ralph, ed. Futurescapes: Space in Utopian and Science Fiction Discourses. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 20009.
Roberts, Adam. The History of Science Fiction. 2nd ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. (Thorough reworking of 1st ed., 2006.)
See also: Roberts, Adam. “A Brief Note on Moretti and Science Fiction,” The Valve: A Literary Organ, January 13, 2006.
Roemer, Kenneth M. Build Your Own Utopia: An Interdisciplinary Course in Utopian Speculation. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1981.
Roemer, Kenneth M. The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings, 1888-1900. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1976.
Roemer, Kenneth M. Utopian Audiences: How Readers Locate Nowhere. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. Table of contents.
Sargent, Lyman Tower. Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. See downloadable Reading Guide.
Smyth, Edmund J., ed. Jules Verne: Narratives of Modernity, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000.
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Encyclopedia of Utopian Literature. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1995.
Seed, David. Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Stableford, Brian. The Dictionary of Science Fiction Places, illustrations by Jeff White. New York: Wonderland Press, 1999.
Stableford, Brian. New Atlantis: A Narrative History of Scientific Romance. Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2016.
Volume I: The Origins of Scientific Romance
Volume II: The Emergence of Scientific Romance
Volume III: The Resurgence of Scientific Romance.
Volume IV: The Decadence of Scientific RomaniceForward To The Past: The History of Science Fiction by James Wallace Harris
Stableford, Brian. Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Suvin, Darko. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. New expanded edition, edited by Gerry Canavan. New York: Peter Lang, 2016.
Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World, edited by Roland Schaer, Gregory Claeys, and Lyman Tower Sargent. New York: The New York Public Library; Oxford University Press, 2000. Catalogue for exhibition October 14, 2000 - January 2001. Publisher description.
Utopias of the British Enlightenment, edited by Gregory Claeys. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Vieira, Fátima, ed. Dystopia(n) Matters. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2013.
Willis, Martin. Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2006.
Literature, science, and science fiction — E.T.A. Hoffmann and the magic of mesmerism — Mary Shelley’s electric imagination — The human experiments of Edgar Allan Poe — Verne’s deep-sea investigations on dry land — Villiers de L’Isle-Adam’s invention of psychical research — H.G. Wells in the laboratory — Conclusion: the progress of literature and science; or, a refrain on interdisciplinarity.
See also Flying Saucers & Afrofuturism — Counternarratives Study Guide.
Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New-Wave Trajectory, edited by Marleen S. Barr. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008. Contents.
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, edited by Sheree R. Thomas. New York: Warner Books, 2000.
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, edited by Sheree R. Thomas. New York: Warner Books, 2004. Contents.
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy; edited by Nalo Hopkinson & Uppinder Mehan; introduction by Samuel R. Delany. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004.
Postcolonial Science Fiction [review essay] by Michelle Reid.
Lock, Graham. Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
Blutopia · Duke Ellington And His Orchestra (1944)
Duke Ellington - Madam Zajj / Ballet of the Flying Saucers (recording)
Black Steampunk / Negra Vaporpunko (Ĝirafo blog)
Socialism and Democracy, # 42 (Volume 20, No. 3): Socialism And Social Critique In Science Fiction [Science fiction + Afrofuturism]
Science Fiction and the Cultural Logic of Early Post Postmodernism by Marleen S. Barr
Afrofuturism Science Fiction and the History of the Future by Lisa Yaszek
Octavia Butler and the Base for American Socialism by Jonathan Scott
Flying Saucers Are Real! The US Navy, Unidentified Flying Objects, and the National Security State by Robert P. Horstemeier
We come from the future by Alain Vicky, Le Monde diplomatique in English, June 2013
Coilhouse: A Love Letter to Alternative Culture
Circlet Press: Welcome to Circlet 2.0 ["erotic science fiction"]
Like the Hand of Time: Time Travel Erotica
Chocolatiers of the High Winds ebook [gay steampunk]
Homage to Rod Serling, a Great American by Ralph Dumain
Science fiction @ Reason & Society
Charles Fourier’s oceans of lemonade
The American Utopia by Eduard Batalov
Dr. Materialismus (quotes & synopsis) by Frederic Jesup Stimson
George Cary Eggleston on Science Fiction & Jules Verne (1874)
Jules Verne’s Lost Novel reviewed by Ralph Dumain
The Science Fiction of Mark Twain (Contents) ed. David Ketterer
Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century—An Anthology [contents & links], compiled by H. Bruce Franklin
Yevgeny Zamyatin on Revolution, Entropy, Dogma and Heresy
Dystopia west, dystopia east: the vanishing of speculative fiction under Stalinism by Erika Gottlieb
C.L.R. James on the Secret of Hegel's Dialectic
Adorno on Hegel, totality, truth, utopia
Adorno to Bloch on the Blockage of Utopia
Italo Calvino on Literature Machines & Utopia
The prevention of literature: intellectual regimentation (1946) by George Orwell
Screed on the Politics of Utopianism by R. Dumain
Cultural Impasse & the Changing Forms of Ideality by R. Dumain
Voltaire’s philosophical tales: commentary by R. Dumain
Convergence on The Prisoner: From Leon Trotsky to George Orwell and Beyond by R. Dumain
Some Comments on The Prisoner by R. Dumain
Revisiting Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle by R. Dumain
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s “Breakfast of Champions”
Rod Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975), A Great American by R. Dumain
Rod Serling in Buffalo, 18 Oct 1972: “The Twentieth Century and Other Absurdities”
The Martian Chronicles & Our Subjective Desires by R. Dumain
Arithmophobia summarized by R. Dumain
Groundhog Day: The Problem of Consciousness (film review) by R. Dumain
What Dreams May Come (film review) by R. Dumain
Alien Resurrection in the Ghetto (film review) by R. Dumain
Alien Intercourse (poem) by R. Dumain
Karel Čapek: The Absolute at Large: key philosophical excerpts
"Studies in a Dying Culture" blog:
Peter Swirski & artificial intelligence: the last gasp of bourgeois reason by Ralph Dumain
Stanislaw Lem on the hopeless science fiction ghetto
Metafantasia: On James Joyce, science fiction, & modernist narrative structures by Stanislaw Lem
“Verstrand’s Extelopedia in 44 Magnetomes” [2 excerpts] by Stanislaw Lem
Stanislaw Lem on Alien Invasions
Stanislaw Lem on Borges & genre
Stanislaw Lem on Jorge Luis Borges (Borges 16)
Jorge Luis Borges sobre Olaf Stapledon [in Spanish]
“A Prayer for James Joyce” by James Blish
Time travel lore (5): ‘Victory Over the Sun’
Ways of Thinking (artificial intelligence, cognitive science, Hungarian literature) by László Mérő
History of World Literature (Excerpt, 1941: Aldous Huxley) by Antal Szerb
“Jókai’s Popularity in Victorian England” by Lóránt Czigány
Ruler of the Universe as Solipsist: from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Love, Incorporated" / a.k.a. "Pilgrimage to Earth" (Quotes) by Robert Sheckley
FOR FUN: How Our Sun Warps Our Brains
Failure to Create: Wisdom from The Outer Limits
Richard Wright’s Outsider, Negroes & Flying Saucers
Simplex, Complex, & Multiplexity according to Samuel R. Delany
"Bonny Delany" by R. Dumain
Ash of Stars: One half of a dialogue on Samuel R. Delany by R. Dumain
Notes on Ubik by Philip K. Dick by R. Dumain
“Hussy“ [same story as “The Pest”], by Valentina Zhuravlyova, translated by Arthur Shkarovsky
"The Pest" by Valentina Zhuravlyova
"Storm" by Valentina Zhuravleva
"The Astronaut" by Valentina Zhuravleva
“Stone from the Stars” by Valentina Zhuravleva
“Star-Winds” (from Fungi from Yuggoth) by H. P. Lovecraft
“The Planet Juggler” by J. George Frederick [excerpt with links]
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1964 (Volume 26, no. 1, whole no. 152)
International Science Fiction, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1967
International Science Fiction, No. 2, June 1968
In The Cavalier:
“The Hop on Hyperspace” by Frank Blighton
Space Travel in 1930 (from The World Book Encyclopedia)
Midwifing the "World Brain": SIG/AH & SIG/BSS Program, 50th ASIS Annual Meeting, Boston, 1987
Chapter VII: The Conflict of Languages from Anticipations by H. G. Wells
Red Stars: Political Aspects of Soviet Science Fiction by Patrick McGuire
Affective machines or the inner self? Drawing the boundaries of the female body in the socialist romantic imagination by Alexey Golubev
Lenin, H. G. Wells, & Science Fiction
Leon Trotsky on H. G. Wells as Philistine
The Life and Thought of H.G. Wells by Julius Kagarlitski
Universal Language in Soviet Science Fiction by Patrick McGuire
Mankind and the Year 2000 by V. Kosolapov
Lynch, [John Gilbert] Bohun (1884-1928): Menace from the Moon by Everet F. Bleiler
Karinthy, Frigyes (1887-1938) by Everet F. Bleiler
“The Mars and District Post” (Mars és vidéke), by Frigyes Karinthy, translated by Mari Kuttna
“5980 A.D.” by Robert Zend, with Esperanto translation by R. Dumain
Science fiction poems by Roberto Bolaño
Mi vida en los tubos de supervivencia / My Life in the Tubes of Survival by Roberto Bolaño
Science-Fiction Magazines 1970-1980: Hungary by Mike Ashley
“A Mad Look at Christmas” [On Toys & Imagination] by Dave Berg
Beyond Deduction and Induction: Towards Perfect Truth According to Edgar Allan Poe
Voltaire’s Calligrapher & the automatons, with commentary by R. Dumain
Karl Marx on automatons, machinery, capital & labor
Historicism and Historical Prediction by Maurice Cornforth
The Fantastic in Literature (excerpts) by Eric S. Rabkin
Engels, Lukács, utopia, & genre theory by R. Dumain
Dialectic and Dystopia: A Century Before and After the Russian Revolution Through Literature (podcast transcript) by R. Dumain
“Der Golem” (1847) [in German] by Leopold Weisel, with bibliography & links
The Cavalier: Covers & Contents
Esperanto in early science fiction to 1930 by Everet F. Bleiler
J. U. Giesy (John Ulrich, 1877-1948) & His Collaborators
Frankenstein at 200: A Very Selective Bibliographic & Web Guide
Karel Čapek: Selected Bibliography & Web Links
Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), 1920-2020, guide compiled by Ralph Dumain
Frigyes & Ferenc Karinthy in English
Sándor Szathmári (1897–1974): Bibliografio & Retgvidilo / Bibliography & Web Guide
Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) en Esperanto
Eugène Mouton: 19th Century Science Fiction Pioneer
Edward Page Mitchell (1852-1927), Science Fiction Pioneer: Time Travel, Hegel, and More
Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau: El anacronópete — The First Time Machine
«Le maître du temps» par Giuseppe Lipparini
The Man Who Was Solved by Dick Allen
Definition of ’Pataphysics by Alfred Jarry
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction: Contents
The Big Book of Science Fiction: Contents (ed. Ann & Jeff Vandermeer)
Wandering Stars: an Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction & More Wandering Stars: Contents, ed. Jack Dann
Alfred Jarry’s “How to Construct a Time Machine”: A Web Guide
H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine: Selected Bibliography
Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Study Materials on the Web
Martin Gardner, Mathematical Games, & the Fourth Dimension (web guide & bibliography)
Valentina Zhuravlyova / Zhuravleva: English translations
James Blish: A Select Bibliographic Guide
Flying Saucers & Afrofuturism — Counternarratives Study Guide
Black Studies, Music, America vs Europe: Study Guide
Anthony Braxton: Selected Bibliography
From Eden to Cain: Unorthodox Interpretations & Literary Transformations: Selected Bibliography
Mathematical Fiction & Related Works: A Guide
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