GOING NOWHERE? – Perchance to Dream & The Guardians (Dystopian Classics) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Science Fiction NovellasBy Richard Stockham, Irving E. Cox
Length1h 35m
About this audiobook
GOING NOWHERE? – Perchance to Dream & The Guardians brings together two compact yet resonant dystopian classics that examine the collapse of autonomy under systems of illusion, surveillance, and social control. Moving between psychological speculation and political allegory, the volume showcases the mid-century science-fictional habit of turning speculative premises into moral and philosophical inquiry. Its paired works invite comparison in their treatment of constrained futures, managed desire, and the uneasy boundary between protection and imprisonment. Richard Stockham and Irving E. Cox belong to the vigorous magazine tradition that shaped twentieth-century speculative fiction, a field in which urgent social anxieties could be refracted through dreams, technologies, institutions, and imagined regimes. Read together, their works align with the broader dystopian current that questioned technocracy, conformity, and the promises of progress. Their distinct narrative approaches enrich the anthology's central concern: how individuals negotiate worlds designed to limit imagination and choice. This collection is recommended for readers interested in the genealogy of dystopian literature and in concise works that reward close reading. In a single volume, it offers a valuable encounter with multiple perspectives on freedom, fear, and social engineering. Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find it a useful portal into the dialogues that dystopian fiction stages between nightmare and warning.
Audiobook details
GenreDystopia, Science Fiction
Length1 hr 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 5, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1GOING NOWHERE? – Perchance to Dream & The Guardians (Dystopian Classics) (Annotated)
2Perchance to Dream
3The Guardians
4Memorable Quotes
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