This chapter examines how subcultural sensibilities have been embedded in non-realistic genres such as fantasy, dystopian fiction and science fiction, and argues that these genres mark out a space for the analysis of group affiliation beyond reference to specific historical contexts. The chapter also explores how such alternative narratives proffer a philosophical consideration of how human societies often organize around small subcultural configurations. In this context, it provides close analyses of five novels: Nicola Barker’s Behindlings (2002), Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange (1962), Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (1977), William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984) and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005). This final chapter concludes with a few reflections on the book as a whole.

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Life on Mars: Sci-Fi, Dystopian and Alternative Subcultures

  • Nick Bentley

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This chapter examines how subcultural sensibilities have been embedded in non-realistic genres such as fantasy, dystopian fiction and science fiction, and argues that these genres mark out a space for the analysis of group affiliation beyond reference to specific historical contexts. The chapter also explores how such alternative narratives proffer a philosophical consideration of how human societies often organize around small subcultural configurations. In this context, it provides close analyses of five novels: Nicola Barker’s Behindlings (2002), Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange (1962), Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (1977), William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984) and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005). This final chapter concludes with a few reflections on the book as a whole.