Table of Contents

• Introduction - David Seed
• 1. Future-War Fiction: The First Main Phase, 1871-1900 - I. F. Clarke
• 2. How America's Fictions of Future War Have Changed the World - H. Bruce Franklin
• 3. War Is Peace: Conscrption and Mobilization in the Modern Utopia - Patrick Parrinder
• 4. From Unvasion to Liberation: Alternative Visions of Mars, Planet of War - Robert Crossley
• 5. John Henry Palmer's The Invasion of New York, or, How Hawaii Was Annexed: Political Discourse and Emergent Mass Culture in 1897 - John Rieder
• 6. John Wyndham's World War III and his Abandoned Fury of Creation Trilogy - David Ketterer
• 7. Prophesying Neocolonial Wars in 1950s American Science Fiction - Rob Latham
• 8. On the Beach: British Nuclear Fiction and the Spaces of Empire's End - Brian Baker
• 9. Adapting the Absurd Apocalypse: Eugene Burdick's and Harvey Wheeler's Fail-Safe and its Cinematic Progeny - Nicholas Ruddick
• 10. The Strategic Defence Initiative: A Utopian Fantasy - David Seed
• 11. When All Wars Are Done: The Transcendent Humanity of Iain M. Banks - Patricia Kerslake
• 12. 'The Benefit and the Handicap of Hindsight': Modelling Risk and Reassessing Future-War Fiction after the 9/11-Induced Shft to a US National Security Strategy of Pre-emptive Attack - A. Michael Matin
• 13. The War after Next: Anticipating Future Conflict in the New Millennium - Antulio J. Echevaria II
• The Writings of I. F. Clarke: A Checklist
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

David Seed is Professor of English at the University of Liverpool.

Reviews

Future Wars is a collection of rich, contextualised historical studies. It is a testament to the legacy of I. F. Clarke that the book consists of such strong, original, scholarly work.