Spaceships, Little Nell, and the Sinister Cardboard Man: A Study of Dickens as Fantasist and as a Precursor of Science Fiction

Bailey, K. V. "Spaceships, Little Nell, and the Sinister Cardboard Man: A Study of Dickens as Fantasist and as a Precursor of Science Fiction." Foundation #21 (Feb. 1981): 34-47.

Demonstrates to KVB's satisfaction that there is in the works of Dickens such recently popular motifs as "a universe of technological conditioning" and the enslavement of human beings "by a technological 'system.'" Uses as a primary recent example of the "Ark" motif B. Aldiss's Non-Stop, q.v. under Fiction.