The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

by David Sergeant

A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an increasing amount of fiction being set there. But what do these disparate works have in common, other than their temporal setting? And what can the imagination of the near future tell us about where we live now? The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction ranges across novels and films to reveal how our contemporary near...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009279882
• ISBN13: 9781009279888
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"