Utopian Literature and Science

<p>Preface<br/>Acknowledgements <br/>1. Introduction <br/>PART I: SCIENCES OF OBSERVATION AND INTERVENTION<br/>2. Beyond the Telescope: From Astronomy to (Dystopian) Fiction <br/>3. A Sylph under the Microscope: Science and Romance <br/>4. Satanism and Genetics: Haldane's Daedalus and Its Begetters <br/>PART II: THE HUMAN ANIMAL<br/>5. Eugenics, Utopia, Eudemonics: Bellamy, Galton and Morris <br/>6. Strains of the Non-Human: The Coming Race, A Crystal Age, Erewhon <br/>7. Gorilla Warfare: Darwin, Freud, and the Stone Age Romance <br/>8. From Human to Animal: Wells and Kafka <br/>PART III: MODERN UTOPIAS AND POST-HUMAN WORLDS<br/>9. War is Peace: Conscription and Mobilisation in the Modern Utopia <br/>10. Towards the Singularity? ?apek's R.U.R. and its Times <br/>11. Olaf Stapledon and the Shape of Things to Come <br/>12. The Expulsion of the Poets <br/>Notes <br/>Bibliography <br/>Index<br/></p>