An Entangled Forest: Evolution and Speculative Fiction

<p>Drawing on his book <em>Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature</em>, Ben Carver examines the figures and functions of evolution, isolation, and entanglement in the imaginary Utopias and Uchronias of speculative fiction, and plots some unsuspected paths between early counterfactual histories and the dark underworlds of contemporary conspiracy theory.</p>