Science Fiction and Empire by Patricia Kerslake PAPERBACK 9781846315046

Science Fiction and Empire\nby Patricia Kerslake\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Patricia Kerslake\nTitle: Science Fiction and Empire\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press\nPublication year: 2010\nISBN-13: 9781846315046\nISBN-10: 1846315042\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis book is about the human desire to experiment with empire. In the past it was done with real soldiers and expeditions and slaves and trade and misery and force. In the future it will be done with generation ships and off-world pioneers, robots and invasion, electronic sheep and people who just don\u2019t want to be pushed around any more. Beginning with a discussion of who \u2018we\u2019 are (hopefully, the good g.