Description: This book examines how the themes and images of science fiction are enabling practitioners to intervene on the most urgent social and political issues of the present moment.
Brief description: Ian Farnell is a teaching fellow at the University of Warwick, UK. His research has been published in Contemporary Theatre Review, Theatre Journal and Studies in Theatre and Performance.
Review Quotes: "Farnell's book makes a significant contribution to theatre and performance studies, science fiction studies and contemporary British drama scholarship. It is elegantly written, elegiac at times, and Farnell's personal engagement with the work comes through clearly." --Drama Research