Speculative Modernism

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1.?Utocalypse
All Will Be Well: The Utopian Roots of Speculative Modernism
The Screw Turns: Bleak Reality Murders Optimism
-Anti-Utopians: The Individual Versus Society
Conclusion
2.?Shadows at the Turn
Gothic Origins of Speculative Modernism
Gothic Extensions: Doppelgaengers to Vampires
Ghosts and the Unexplained
Conclusion
3.?This Island Earth: Nature vs. Speculative Modernists
Science Will Bend Nature to Serve Humanity: The Utopian Perspective
There Are Things We Can Never Know: The Purple Cloud and the Limits of Science
Beyond This Place and Time: The Natural World Will Outlast Us
Weaponizing Nature: Understanding the Non-Human World in Order to Destroy It
Conclusion
4.?Worlds Beyond
What Do We Really Have to Offer?
They Want What We Want
"We're Down; We're Beat": Humanity's Defeat
Conclusion
5.?Machinocracy
A Species in Distress: Machines Will Save Humanity
Sand in the Gears: Machines Can't Save Us
Building the Perfect Gun: Machines Will Kill Us All
Conclusion
6.?Divine Secrets
The Benevolent Universe: Spiritual Rewards for the Speculative Modernist
Cruel Reality: Monsters Lurking Beyond the Veil
The Neutral Universe: Our Truth Lies Within Ourselves
Conclusion
7.?We Are Fortunately Flawed
Sherlock Holmes: Ego and -Ultra-Rationalism
Tarzan: Natural Law and the Laws of Man
Buck Rogers: Future Perfect
King Kull: Governing by Axe
Conan the Cimmerian: Blood on Steel
Jirel of Joiry: Darkness and Light
Conclusion
Epilogue
The Editorial Tastemakers
The Book Publishers Who Made the Old New Again
Conan as Chronicle
Chapter Notes
Works Cited
Index

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