About the Author

Carl Freedman is professor of English at Louisiana State University and author of Critical Theory and Science Fiction; The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture; and George Orwell: A Study in Ideology and Literary Form. He is also editor of Conversations with Isaac Asimov, Conversations with Samuel R. Delany, and Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin, all published by University Press of Mississippi.