This book presents an always absorbing clutch of essays, full of illumination and interesting sidelights on the utopian tradition, from which every reader will learn something new. (Roger Luckhurst, English Literature in Transition, Vol. 60 (3), 2017)
From Martians and moon-men to utopian inhabitants of a variety of species, Patrick Parrinders monograph is rich in the early history of speculative writing. The book is particularly notable for showing the centrality of science fictional utopian speculation to the mainstream of Western imagination from Kepler, Bruno and Galileo through to the mid-twentieth century. In reframing the historical relationship between utopian thinking and science, Parrinder also offers important challenges to the scholarly community of utopian studies. (Adam Stock, Review of English Studies, Vol. 67 (281), September, 2016)
