American science fiction, both literature and film, has played a key role in the portrayal of the fears inherent in the Cold War. Working through key texts, this work investigates the political inflexions put on American narratives in the post-war decades by Cold War cultural circumstances.

Postwar Jeremiads: Philip Wylie and Leo Szilard --Variations on a Patriotic Theme: Robert A. Heinlein -- History and Apocalypse in Poul Anderson -- Views from the Hearth -- Cultures of Surveillance -- Take-Over Bids; Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth -- The Russians Have Come -- Embodying the Arms Race: Bernard Wolfe's Limbo -- The Cold War Computerised -- Conspiracy Narratives -- Absurdist Visions: Dr. Strangelove in Context -- The Signs of War: Walter M. Miller and Russell Hoban -- In the Aftermath -- The Star Wars Debate.

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