Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction Quotes

“The opposition of the unbounded, anarchic sea to the national, political organization of the land is far more important to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea than is the design or practicality of Captain Nemo’s submarine.”
― John Rieder, Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction

“The key element linking colonial ideology to science fiction’s fascination with new technology is the new technology’s scarcity.”
― John Rieder, Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction

“Thomas Clareson, the least fussy of all major scholars of science fiction when it comes to generic definitions, nonetheless insists that belief in progress is an absolute prerequisite to the formation of science fiction (“Emergence” 5).”
― John Rieder, Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction

“Without reducing the complex political and cultural history of colonialism to mere secondary effects of a primary economic process, one still can say that one of the most comprehensive and inclusive ways to think about colonialism is by way of its role in the construction of a world-wide, unified capitalist economy,”
― John Rieder, Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction

“I am not trying to argue that colonialism is science fiction’s hidden truth. I want to show that it is part of the genre’s texture, a persistent, important component of its displaced references to history, its engagement in ideological production, and its construction of the possible and the imaginable.”
― John Rieder, Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction