Escape Plans

'''Jones, Gwyneth. Escape Plans.''' London: Unwin, 1986.

In Feminism and Science Fiction (ch. 5), Sara Lefanu says EP posits a cleaned-up Earth made into a nature preserve as a resort for off-world rulers; common folk, "or numbers, have been tidied away below the surface"—and "Some of the numbers are literally plugged into the system, with sockets burned into their brains. But, apparently dehumanised, machine-interfaced" they and the masses more generally "are still human, despite their enforced cultural poverty" (quoting Lefanu, IUP rpt. 51). Cf. and contrast H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, E. M. Foster's "The Machine Stops," S, R. Delany's Nova (listed in this Category), and the films METROPOLIS, THX 1138, and MAD MAX[III] BEYOND THUNDERDOME (cited under Drama).