Ebook: Relativism, alternate history, and the forgetful reader: reading science fiction and historiography

This book channels the speculative power of science fiction to examine the limits of postmodern philosophies of history. By contrasting the questioning nature of science fiction to postmodern philosophy of history, it finds that this postmodernism often engages in a forgetful, even ahistorical, reading of the past.

;Introduction: The Namshub of history -- The forgetful reader -- Forgetting the scientific revolution -- Trivial literature and the techno-pagan nazi -- The Da Vinci Code phenomenon and orthodoxy -- Madness and the text.