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Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination Also available from Continuum Measureless Time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida , Ruben Borg Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory , Sarah Dillon Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination Elana Gomel Continuum Literary Studies Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 80 Maiden Lane 11 York Road Suite 704 London SE1 7NX New York, NY 10038 ? Elana Gomel 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Elana Gomel has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identii ed as Author of this work. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 9781441123954 (hardcover) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gomel, Elana. Postmodern science i ction and temporal imagination / Elana Gomel. p. cm. -- (Continuum literary studies) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-4411-2395-4 1. Science i ction--History and criticism. 2. Time in literature. 3. Postmodernism (Literature) I. Title. II. Series. 2010 '8762--dc22 2009050601 Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Group Ltd This one is for Jim It seems to me, then, that time is merely an extension, though of what it is an extension I do not know. I begin to wonder whether it is an extension of the mind itself. St Augustine, Confessions Contents Acknowledgements viii Preface: Timeshapes ix Introduction: Time Enough for World 1 Chapter 1 The Time Machines: H. G. Wells and the Invention of Postmodernity 27 Chapter 2 Strangled by the Time Loop: Paradoxes of Determinism 53 Chapter 3