To Seek Out New Worlds: Exploring Links between Science Fiction and World Politics

by Jutta Weldes

This volume explores the science fiction/world politics intertext. Through detailed analyses of such texts as Blade Runner, Stalker, Star Trek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the chapters in this volume examine the complex and sometimes contradictory relations between world politics, both as discipline and as practice, and discourses of science fiction. Offering a novel combination of popular culture analysis with major theoretical and empirical issues concerning world politics, Science Fiction and World Politics provides insights into the discursive constitution of both science fiction and world politics while highlighting the occasional challenges that the science fiction/world politics intertext launches at our common sense.

Genres: Nonfiction

239 pages, Paperback

First published May 2, 2003

Reviews

[Naeem · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some rather good essays on the relationship of fiction to International Relations theory. There is a chapter on "Buffy" and a few on "Star Trek."

[Marty · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is very dense and scholarly. I don't really have the background to read it easily . Nevertheless, I enjoyed it and got some insight.