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Cult Fiction: Suggestions for Genre Exploration Drinking the Kool-Aid Dystopia by Kelly Fann 1984 by George Orwell Tonganoxie Public Library Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Battle Royale by Koushon Takami Suggestions Fantasy for Teen Readers The Once and Future King by T. H. White The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Crash by J.G. Ballard (this could arguably go under science fiction; however, hardcore science-fiction fans will be remiss to see it labeled as such.) The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart Dune by Frank Herbert The Belgariad series by David Eddings Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk Horror or Thriller The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice by Douglas Adams The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson Geek Love by Katherine Dunn American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link Nonfiction Neuromancer by William Gibson Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Robert M. Pirsig by Alexander Solzhenitsyn Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Let that be the Reason by Vickie Stringer by Ken Kesey No Logo by Naomi Klein Only Forward Science Fiction by Michael Marshall Smith Dune by Frank Herbert One Hundred Years of Solitude Neuromancer by William Gibson by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Perfume by Patrick Süskind Subculture The Pigman by Paul Zindel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk The Stranger by Albert Camus Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess .

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THE SURVIVAL and MUTATION of Utoi
PHOENIX RENEWED: THE SURVIVAL AND MUTATION OF UTOi’IAN THOUGHT IN NORTH AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION, 1965—1982 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF ATLANTA UNIVERSITY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR TEE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY BY HODA MOUKHTAR ZAKI DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE ATLANTA, GEORGIA DECEMBER 1984 ABS TRACT POLITICAL SCIENCE ZAKI, H01P4 MOURHIAR B.A. , American University in Cairo, 1971 N.A., Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1974 Phoenix Renewed: The Survival and_Mutation_of Utopian Thought in ~urth American Science Fiction, 1965—1982 Adviser: Dr. Alex Hillingham The&is d~tei Decenber, 1984 This dissertation is concerned with the status of utoni en in rwdcra timas. As such it is concerned with a historic problem ir pci tial :hearv, i.e., how to visualize a perfect human community. Since the turn of the 20th century, we have seen a decline in utopian ~i tera.ture. A variety of commentators, including Mannhein: and Mumford, noted and decried this trend. It seemed ironic to those observers that utopia~s demise would occur when humanity was closest to realizing material abundance for all. My research evaluates this irony. The primary data of my work are drawn from the genre of science fiction. The new locus for utopian thought seems natural enough. Science fiction is a speculative activity and, in its emphasis on science and technology, concerns itself with an area of human activity that has been intimately connected with the idea of progress since the European Enlightenment. A number of scholars including Mumford, Sargent, Suvin, and Williams, have asserted that contemporary utopian thought could be found in science fiction.
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