Books

Books


The following books are available to purchase on Amazon.com

Authored by Carl Freedman:
  1. George Orwell: A Study in Ideology and Literary Form [0-8240-6389-9] (Garland, 1988)
  2. Critical Theory and Science Fiction [0-8195-6399-4] (Wesleyan University Press, 2000)
  3. The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture [0-8195-6555-5] (Wesleyan University Press, 2002)
  4. The Age of Nixon: A Study in Cultural Power [978-1846949432] (Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2012)

Edited by Carl Freedman:
  1. Conversations with Isaac Asimov [1-57806-738-3] (University Press of Mississippi, 2005)
  2. Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin [978-1-60473-094] (University Press of Mississippi, 2008)
  3. Conversations with Samuel R. Delany [978-1-60473-278] (University Press of Mississippi, 2009)

More Sample Praise


  • Critical Theory and Science Fiction:

    "[An] important volume . . . [Freedman] writes intriguingly about affinities between science fiction and historical fiction and makes useful observations about parallels between science fiction and utopian fiction . . . His concluding speculations about the future of both critical theory and science fiction are judicious and restrained. A valuable addition to the slim collection of groundbreaking critical works on science fiction. " --Choice

    "Full of sharp insights . . . an ambitious book . . . fans who . . . ponder about sf 's links with wider bodies of thought and conversation will find it extremely useful. "--Foundation: International Review of Science Fiction


  • The Incomplete Projects:

    "The extended introduction to The Incomplete Projects is as lucid an explanation of the economics underlying the Marxist approach to the world in general and to history in particular as I can imagine anyone writing today. It will be especially informative for the young and the curious. This collection should be as exciting for our time as Caudwell's Studies & Further Studies in a Dying Culture were for the 1930s."
    (Samuel R. Delany, author of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue )

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"Richard Nixon was real, for all that he seems like a fictional character concocted in the course of some strange literary collaboration between Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Theodore Dreiser, and J. G. Ballard. And Nixon continues to fascinate us, and to haunt our dreams, even these many years after his death. Carl Freedman’s compelling book takes the full measure of Nixon the man, Nixon the media image, Nixon the myth, and even Nixon the ideal type, the quintessential expression, and the most capacious representative of the political and economic system under which we continue to live today." Steven Shaviro, author of Connected, Without Criteria, and Post- Cinematic Affect