Storm Warnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0809313766 ISBN 13: 9780809313761

Casa editrice: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1987

Riassunto

These 17 original essays, written for the sixth Eaton Conference on Fantasy and Science Fiction, explore the uses, origins, and forms of future fiction. The contributors are George E. Slusser, Paul Alkon, Marie-Hélène Huet, Howard V. Hendrix, Bradford Lyau, Gregory Benford, José Manuel Mota, Frederik Pohl, George Hay, Colin Greenland, John Huntington, Elizabeth Maslen, W. M. S. and Claire Russell, T. A. Shippey, Kenneth V. Bailey, Gary Kern, and Frank McConnell.

The essays address the question Do we call up images of future societies in order to prepare for them, or to forestall their ever coming into existence?”

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L'autore:

George E. Slusser is Curator of the Eaton Collection at the University of California, Riverside.

Colin Greenland is a novelist and critic whose reviews appear regularly in theTimes Literary Supplement.

Eric S. Rabkin is Professor of English at the University of Michigan.

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• Editore: Southern Illinois Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0809313766
• ISBN 13: 9780809313761
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 278
• Redattore: Slusser George Edgar, Greenland Colin, Rabkin Eric S.