Brian McHale's maxim—"Science fiction...is to postmodernism what detective fiction was to modernism" (16)—initially seems to place SF at the center of any definition of postmodernism, and SF's history ...

(1) The Seven Ps of Postmoderism (as marketers might call it) is postmodernism's manifesto. This mix of fanciful and unreal playtime has been viewed as a rebellion against modernism. In fact, it is a ...