Culture Governance, New Labour, and the British SF Boom.
This essay explores the resurgence of British sf in the 1990s in the context of the transformation of British cultural life, in particular following the election of the New Labour government in May 1997. The argument does not propose that the boom starts with this election, only that Blairism consol...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 417 - 436 |
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University of California Press
Nov2003
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