No. 5 2020 Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy No. 5 – 2020 Editorial Board | Adelaide Serras Ana Daniela Coelho Ana Rita Martins Angélica Varandas Diana Marques João Félix José Duarte Advisory Board | Adam Roberts (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, UK) David Roas (Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain) Flávio García (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Henrique Leitão (Fac. de Ciências, Univ. de Lisboa, Portugal) Jonathan Gayles (Georgia State University, USA) Katherine Fowkes (High Point University, USA) Ljubica Matek (Univ. of Osijek, Croatia) Mª Cristina Batalha (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Martin Simonson (Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain) Susana Oliveira (Fac. de Arquitectura, Un. de Lisboa, Portugal) Teresa Lopez-Pellisa (Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain) Copy Editors | Ana Rita Martins || Ana Daniela Coelho || David Klein Martins | João Félix || José Duarte Translator | Diogo Almeida Photography | Duarte Amaral Netto Site | http://messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt/journal/ Contact |
[email protected] ISSN | 2183-7465 Editor | Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa | University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies Alameda da Universidade - Faculdade de Letras 1600-214 Lisboa - Portugal 2 Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy Guest Editor Matthew Hill Co-Editor No. 5 João Félix 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL 5 GUEST EDITOR: MATTHEW HILL MONOGRAPH SECTION 9 UTOPIA’S EXTINCTION: THE ANTHROPOSCENIC LANDSCAPES OF URSULA K. LE GUIN JONATHAN HAY 10 IS THERE STILL HOPE FOR A BETTER FUTURE? PROBING THE ANSWER IN URSULA LE GUIN’S THE DISPOSSESSED AND MARGARET ATWOOD’S THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD TRANG DANG 28 BLACK MIRROR’S “FIFTEEN MILLION MERITS”: RE-DEFINING HUMAN BODIES WITH DYSTOPIAN TECHNOLOGY ZITA HÜSING 42 “THERE ARE NO HEROES IN GOTHAM”: SUBVERTING THE SUPERHERO NARRATIVE AND DEPICTING DYSTOPIAN LANDSCAPES IN GOTHAM.