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Nursery Realms
Child characters are surprisingly common in horror, fantasy, and science fiction literature and films. Children represent innocence and virtue and symbolize the classic question of …
Immortal Engines
These nineteen original essays seek to recontextualize the subject of immortality, examining its influence as an ancient human aspiration while at the same time considering new …
The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s
Tracing the development of science fiction, this book offers a thorough examination of how the genre evolved to its current state. Close critical attention is given to topics …
The Other Side of the Sky
The The Spacesuit Film
Filmmakers employ various images to suggest the strangeness of outer space, but protective spacesuits most powerfully communicate the dangers of space and the frailty and weakness …
Foods of the Gods
Gluttony and starvation, pleasure and pain, growth and decay. These and other extremes of our condition related to food, though all but banned from the "civilized" tables of …
World Weavers – Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution
World Weavers is the first ever study on the relationship between globalization and science fiction. Scientific innovations provide citizens of different nations with a unique …
Science Fiction
In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as "this enormously ambitious posthumous volume," renowned scholar George Slusser offers a definitive version of the argument about the …
Science Fiction
In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as this enormously ambitious posthumous volume, renowned scholar George Slusser offers a definitive version of the argument about the history …
Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy
Science fiction occupies a peculiar place in the academic study of literature. For decades, scholars have looked at science fiction with disdain and have criticized it for being …
Cosmic Engineers
The first comprehensive critical study of hard science fiction, this book reveals how the term hard science fiction originated, and how arguments about its range and nature have …
Day in a Working Life
Ideal for high school and college students studying history through the everyday lives of men and women, this book offers intriguing information about the jobs that people have …