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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: The Dystopian Imagination - An Overview 1 ECKART VOIGTS

1. and Degeneration: H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1898) 13 RICHARD NATE

2. Biopolitical Dystopia: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932) 29 RONJA TRIPP

3. Totalitarian Dystopia: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) 47 ECKART VOIGTS

4. Anti-Humanist Dystopia: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953) 67 RODIGER HEINZE

5. Mechanistic Dystopia: E. M. Forster, "The Machine Stops" (1909) and Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano (1952) 85 NILS WILKINSON AND ECKART VOIGTS

6. Dystopian Violence: A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess 1962/ Stanley Kubrick 1971) 103 RENATE BROSCH

7. Dystopian Androids: Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and Ridley Scott, Blade Runner (1982) 121 CHRISTOPH HOUSWITSCHKA

8. Surrealist Dystopia: J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) 139 RAIMUND BORGMEIER

9. Feminist Utopia/Dystopia: Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975) and Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) 155 JEANNE CORTIEL

10. Ambiguous Utopia: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974) 171 RAIMUND BORGMEIER

http://d-nb.info/1064104649 11. Postcolonial Dystopia: J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) 187 JAN WILM

12. Graphic Dystopia: Watchmen (Moore/Gibbons, 1986-1987) and Vfor Vendetta (Moore/Lloyd, 1982-1989) 201 DIRK AND MARIE VANDERBEKE

13. Cyberpunk and Dystopia: William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984) 221 LARS SCHMEINK

14. Religious Dystopia: Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and its Film Adaptation (SchlOndorffTPinter, 1990) 237 KERSTIN SCHMIDT

15. Posthuman Dystopia/Critical Dystopia: Octavia E. Butler's Parable Series (1993, 1998) and Xenogenesis Trilogy (1987-1989) 253 SONJA GEORGI

16. Dystopia of Isolation: William Golding, Lord of the Flies (1954) and Alex Garland, The Beach (1996) 269 VIRGINIA RICHTER

17. Eco-Dystopia and Biotechnology: Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013) 283 DUNJA M. MOHR

18. Post-Nuclear Dystopia: Russell Hoban, (1980) 303 ULRICH HORSTMANN

19. Eugenics and Dystopia: Andrew Niccol, Gattaca (1997) and Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (2005) 317 NICOLA GLAUBITZ

20. Dystopia of Reproduction: P. D. James, The Children of Men (1992) and Alfonso Cuaron, Children of Men (2006) 333 JOCHEN PETZOLD

21. Virtual Reality and Dystopia: Lana and Andy Wachowski, The Matrix (1999-2003) and David Cronenberg, eXistenZ (1999) 347 MONIKA PIETRZAK-FRANGER 22. Postmodernism and Dystopia: , (2004) 363 OLIVER LINDNER

23. Post-Apocalyptic Dystopia: Cormac McCarthy, The Road (2006) 379 JAN HOLLM

24. Dystopian Video Games: Fallout in Utopia 395 SEBASTIAN DOMSCH

25. Young Adult Dystopia: Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games Trilogy (2008-2010) 411 ECKART VOIGTS AND ALESSANDRA BOLLER