First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Tom Moylanis Glucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing at the University of Limerick. He is author of Scraps ofthe Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopiaand Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the UtopianImagination(Routledge), and coeditor of Not Yet:Reconsidering Ernst Bloch. Raffaella Baccoliniis Associate Professor of English at the University of Bologna.