부산대학교 도서관

Science fiction in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) cannot be properly described by the existing Anglo-American popular cultural theories of production and reader response. Science fiction was not a propaganda tool of the Socialist Unity Party, nor can it be interpreted wholly as a subversive genre due to its qualities of estrangement. The writer examines the close relationship between the production and reception of science fiction in the GDR, in which individuals often performed the function of writer, editor, and reader simultaneously.