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

by Ingo Cornils

Shows German Science Fiction's connections with utopian thought, and how it attempts Zukunftsbew ltigung: coping with an uncertain but also unwritten future.

Since its beginnings, German Science Fiction (or SF) has engaged with social change and technological progress, often drawing from utopian thought. The writer Kurd La witz challenged the authoritarian Wilhelmine order; later, film director Fritz Lang provided a searing critique of...

• 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"