Beyond Tomorrow: German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Centuries

by Ingo Cornils

Since its beginnings, German Science Fiction (or SF) has engaged with social change and technological progress, often drawing from utopian thought. The writer Kurd Lawitz challenged the authoritarian Wilhelmine order; later, film director Fritz Lang provided a searing critique of Weimar society. Meanwhile utopian thinkers like Ernst Bloch and Herbert Marcuse insisted on the possibility of hope, even in the face of totalitarianism. During the Cold...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640140352
• ISBN13: 9781640140356
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"