Eckart Voigts, Alessandra Boller (eds.) Dystopia, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalypse Classics - New Tendencies - Model Interpretations TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: The Dystopian Imagination - An Overview 1 ECKART VOIGTS 1. Dystopia 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 RÜDIGER 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 ofTime (1976) 155 JEANNE CORTIEL 10. Ambiguous Utopia: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974) 171 RAIMUND BORGMEIER 11. Postcolonial Dystopia: J. M. Coetzee, Waitingfor 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 (Schlöndorff/Pinter, 1990) 237 KERSTIN SCHMIDT 15. Posthuman Dystopia/Critical Dystopia: Octavia E. Butler's Parable Series (1993, 1998) andXenogenesis 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, Riddley Walker (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 ofMen (1992) and Alfonso Cuarön, 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: David Mitchell, CloudAtlas (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 .