| Description |
xii, 347 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. New worlds for old: Apocalyptic imagination, science fiction, and American literature: Science fiction ; A prophecy of America, the moon, and Mars -- pt. 2. Other worlds: Other worlds out of space and time: Edgar Allan Poe and the visionary tradition of science fiction ; Left hand of darkness: Ursula K. LeGuin's archetypal "Winter-journey" -- Other worlds in space and time: Utopian fantasy as millennial motive and science-fictional motif ; The means and ends of science fiction -- pt. 3. Present world in other terms: Human, more or less: Transformed world of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland ; Solaris and the illegitimate suns of science fiction -- Its a flat world!: Epoch-eclipse and apocalypse: special "effects" in A Connecticut yankee ; New dimensions of time, space, and literature -- Somebody up there: Melville's The confidence-man and the fiction of science ; Vonnegut's spiral siren call: from Dresden's lunar vistas to Tralfamadore. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, American. |
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Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism.
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Apocalyptic literature. |
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End of the world in literature.
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End of the world in literature. |
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Science-fiction américaine -- Histoire et critique. |
| ISBN |
0253340527 |
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9780253340528 |
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