Science Fiction, New Space Opera, and Neoliberal Globalism

Nostalgia for Infinity

By (author) Jerome Winter

Publication date:

15 November 2016

Length of book:

256 pages

Publisher

University of Wales Press

Dimensions:

216x138mm

ISBN-13: 9781783169443

One of the few points critics and readers can agree upon when discussing the fiction popularly known as New Space Opera – a recent subgenre movement of science fiction – is its canny engagement with contemporary cultural politics in the age of globalisation. This book avers that the complex political allegories of New Space Opera respond to the recent cultural phenomenon known as neoliberalism, which entails the championing of the deregulation and privatisation of social services and programmes in the service of global free-market expansion. Providing close readings of the evolving New Space Opera canon and cultural histories and theoretical contexts of neoliberalism as a regnant ideology of our times, this book conceptualises a means to appreciate this thriving movement of popular literature.