Utopian Studies, January 1st, 1999
Derek Littlewood and Peter Stockwell, eds. Impossibility Fiction: Alternativity, Extrapolation, Speculation. Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature, 17. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996. 211 pp. $15.05.
THE ESSAYS COLLECTED HERE set out to explore and chart the landscape of "impossibility fiction," a nebulous term intended to designate the region where fantasy, SF, Utopia, myth, dream visions, travelers tales and other forms of the fantastic meet and overlap. In his introduction Peter Stockwell postulates three types of impossibility encompassed by this "intergenre that allows us to negotiate unre...
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