Future Wars
The Anticipations and the Fears
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
302 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2012
This timely book investigates fiction that speculates about wars likely to break out in the near or distant future. Ranging widely across periods and conflicts real and imagined, Future Wars explores the interplay between politics, literature, science fiction, and war in a range of classic texts. Individual essays look at Reagan’s infamous “Star Wars” project, nuclear fiction, Martian invasion, and the Pax Americana. The use of future war scenarios in military planning dates back to the nineteenth century, and Future Wars concludes with a US Army officer’s assessment of the continuing usefulness of future wars fiction.
Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck, University of London
“Future Wars is a collection of rich, contextualized historical studies. It is a testament to the legacy of I. F. Clarke that the book consists of such strong, original, scholarly work.”
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