De Witt Douglas Kilgore

Astrofuturism

Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""Kilgore demonstrates not only how to read nonfiction with the same analytic eye as one reads fiction but also how to read all texts without the cultural filter of whiteness as the default perceptual mode.""--Science Fiction Studies Astrofuturis

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9780812218473
• ISBN-10: 0812218477
• Artikelnr.: 21427218

Autorenporträt

By De Witt Douglas Kilgore

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Wonderful Dream
1. Knocking on Heaven's Door: David Lasser and the First Conquest of Space
2. An Empire in Space: Europe and America as Science Fact
3. Building a Space Frontier: Robert A. Heinlein and the American Tradition
4. Will There Always Be an England? Arthur C. Clarke's New Eden
5. The Domestication of Space: Gerard K. O'Neill's Suburban Diaspora
6. Ben Bova: Race, Nation, and Renewal on the High Frontier
7. On Mars and Other Heterotopias: A Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments