Introduction to newer SF history: Karel Čapek, or the aliens among us. Estrangement and cognition -- SF and the genological jungle -- Defining the literary genre of Utopia: some historical semantics, some genology, a proposal, and a plea -- SF and the novum -- 2. History: Introduction to older SF history: The alternative island -- The shift to anticipation: radical rhapsody and romantic recoil -- Liberalism mutes the anticipation: the space binding machines -- Anticipating the sunburst: dream, vision -or nightmare? -- Introduction to newer SF history: Wells as the turning point of the SF tradition -- The time machine versus Utopia as structural models for SF -- Russian SF and its Utopian tradition -- Karel Čapek, or the aliens among us.
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