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This up-to-the-minute look at some of the most remarkable examples of a classic genre as it keeps pace with developments in the real world is fascinating and enlightening....Students of literature will appreciate the author's many references to earlier, important critical perspectives on utopian forms, in addition to her own insightful evaluations of these very recent works. Like the stories themselves, Newman is exploring fresh territory. Readers will enjoy her engaging style and the self-contained chapters and useful bibliography. Summing Up: Highly recommended. --D. C. Greenwood, Albright College, CHOICE This is a focused investigation demonstrating a keen analysis of narrative technique... Newman's effort is both timely and considered. - Kate North, Times Higher Education This up-to-the-minute look at some of the most remarkable examples of a classic genre as it keeps pace with developments in the real world is fascinating and enlightening...Each chapter takes up a significant new work of fiction, placing it within the literary tradition and showing how it builds on that tradition in noteworthy ways...Students of literature will appreciate the author's many references to earlier, important critical perspectives on utopian forms, in addition to her own insightful evaluations of these very recent works. Like the stories themselves, Newman is exploring fresh territory. Readers will enjoy her engaging style and the self-contained chapters and useful bibliography. Summing Up: Highly recommended. -D. C. Greenwood, Albright College, Choice A book that provides a thoughtful, erudite and wide-ranging discussion of literary fiction...I will be returning to this book, using it in my own teaching and research, and encouraging others to do so as well. --Aliki Varvogli, University of Dundee, Journal of American Studies Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction offers a series of thought-provoking readings on contemporary fiction, brought together on the basis of their utopian potential. --Paula Martin Salvan, University of Cordoba, ATLANTIS Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies

""This up-to-the-minute look at some of the most remarkable examples of a classic genre as it keeps pace with developments in the real world is fascinating and enlightening….Students of literature will appreciate the author's many references to earlier, important critical perspectives on utopian forms, in addition to her own insightful evaluations of these very recent works. Like the stories themselves, Newman is exploring fresh territory. Readers will enjoy her engaging style and the self-contained chapters and useful bibliography. Summing Up: Highly recommended."" --D. C. Greenwood, Albright College, CHOICE “This is a focused investigation demonstrating a keen analysis of narrative technique… Newman’s effort is both timely and considered.” - Kate North, Times Higher Education ""This up-to-the-minute look at some of the most remarkable examples of a classic genre as it keeps pace with developments in the real world is fascinating and enlightening…Each chapter takes up a significant new work of fiction, placing it within the literary tradition and showing how it builds on that tradition in noteworthy ways…Students of literature will appreciate the author's many references to earlier, important critical perspectives on utopian forms, in addition to her own insightful evaluations of these very recent works. Like the stories themselves, Newman is exploring fresh territory. Readers will enjoy her engaging style and the self-contained chapters and useful bibliography. Summing Up: Highly recommended."" -D. C. Greenwood, Albright College, Choice ""A book that provides a thoughtful, erudite and wide-ranging discussion of literary fiction…I will be returning to this book, using it in my own teaching and research, and encouraging others to do so as well."" --Aliki Varvogli, University of Dundee, Journal of American Studies ""Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction offers a series of thought-provoking readings on contemporary fiction, brought together on the basis of their utopian potential."" --Paula Martín Salván, University of Córdoba, ATLANTIS Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies

This is a focused investigation demonstrating a keen analysis of narrative technique... Newman's effort is both timely and considered. - Kate North, Times Higher Education This up-to-the-minute look at some of the most remarkable examples of a classic genre as it keeps pace with developments in the real world is fascinating and enlightening...Each chapter takes up a significant new work of fiction, placing it within the literary tradition and showing how it builds on that tradition in noteworthy ways...Students of literature will appreciate the author's many references to earlier, important critical perspectives on utopian forms, in addition to her own insightful evaluations of these very recent works. Like the stories themselves, Newman is exploring fresh territory. Readers will enjoy her engaging style and the self-contained chapters and useful bibliography. Summing Up: Highly recommended. -D. C. Greenwood, Albright College, Choice A book that provides a thoughtful, erudite and wide-ranging discussion of literary fiction...I will be returning to this book, using it in my own teaching and research, and encouraging others to do so as well. --Aliki Varvogli, University of Dundee, Journal of American Studies

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Judie Newman is Professor of American Studies at The University of Nottingham, UK.

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