The Boom & the Boom: Historical Rupture and Political Economy in Contemporary British and Chinese Science Fiction (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction: Mapping the Field: The Boom and the Boom ? The Ones Who Walk Away: Disrupted Utopias in Han Song’s Red Star Over America and Iain M. Banks’s Culture Series ? What’s Past Is Prologue: Historical Rupture in Hao Jingfang’s Vagabonds and Ken MacLeod’s Fall Revolution Quartet ? Long Live the Vampire: Exploitive Heterotopias in China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station and Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide ? From Consumption to Prosumption: Spectacle of Political Economy in James Lovegrove’s Days and Long Yi’s Earth Province ? Past the Point of No Return: Economization and Deterritorialization in Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Trilogy and M. John Harrison’s Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy ? Epilogue: A Confession of Breach.