WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE: POLITICS AND SCIENCE FICTION is now available to order. The book is 160 pages in length and costs just 24 EUROS with free postage to anywhere in the world. The PayPal address is blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk and you can find more details below. Editor: Troy Southgate / Cover: Francisco Albanese Pastene

AT a time when new and disturbing forms of technology are becoming increasingly more dystopian, it could be argued that science fiction is starting to evolve into science fact. When it comes to highlighting the possible warning signs that indicate a gradual shift towards a future totalitarianism, both literature and film have always served as an excellent medium. Naturally, within each of these cultural genres there are countless examples of highly repressive systems which feature an imaginative selection of interplanetary dynasties, alien beings, robotic automatons, time-travel and high-tech machines. Inevitably, a large number of storylines – set, as they are, either here on earth or in outer space – often drift into the realm of politics and in this new volume a group of writers explore some of the ways in which sci-fi is mixed with ideology to create a potent brew of futurism, technocracy, identity, struggle and the promise of utopia.

Chapters include:

*Exploring the “Final Frontier”: How Star Trek Reflects the Paradoxes of Post-WWII Liberalism and Progressivism;

*It’s a Mad Max World for Us: Post-Apocalyptic Daydreams in an Age of Dystopian Crisis;

*Rebel Universes: Science Fiction as an Anarchic Laboratory;

*Political Foundations in the Dune Saga;

*Welt am Draht: Where Fiction Meets Reality;

*Science Fiction with the Stamp of Approval;

*Bad Blood: Expanding on Notions of Caste in Huxley’s Brave New World;

*Against the Erosion of Order: Lovecraft as a Reactionary;

*Welcome to the Pleasuredome: Where Dystopian Literature Reinforces the Illusion of Freedom;

*Science Fiction as a Reflection of the Sprit of the Age;

*The Familiarity of a World Gone Mad: Owen Barfield’s Night Operation;

*Oxygen and Aromasia: The Early Feminist Vision of Claës Lundin;

*A Feminist Dystopia: The Nightmare World of Sandra Newman;

*Eager Spring: Owen Barfield’s Last Novel;

*Past Actions, Present Crimes: Entering The Minority Report;

*The Rule of the Prezident: Techno-dystopia and Biopolitics in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Incal;

*Happy Families: Karin Boyle’s Kallocain

The contributors are Troy Southgate (Editor), Keith Preston, Piercarlo Bormida, David Lara Miguez, Nicky Reid, Ismo Ilari Meinander, Aleksandar Sazdovski and Francisco Albanese.