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"Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space is the first full-scale analysis of an aesthetic, scientific, and political movement that sought the amelioration of racial difference and social antagonisms through the conquest of space. Drawing on the popular science writing and science fiction of an eclectic group of scientists, engineers, and popular writers, De Witt Douglas Kilgore investigates how the American tradition of technological utopianism responded to the political upheavals of the twentieth century. Founded in the imperial politics and utopian schemes of the…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2010University of Pennsylvania Press · 304 pages · 9780812200669
- Other · English · 2003University of Pennsylvania Press · 294 pages · 9780812237191
American Science fictionAstronautics in literatureFuture in literatureHistory and criticismLife on other planets in literatureLiterature and scienceRace in literatureSpace and time in literature