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1 online resource (x, 302 pages). |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
Contents |
The ends of first SF : pioneers as veterans -- After the new wave : after science fiction? -- Beyond Apollo : space fictions after the moon landing -- Big dumb objects : science fiction as self-parody -- The rise of fantasy : swords and planets -- Home of the extraterrestrial brothers : race and African American science fiction -- Alien invaders : Vietnam and the counterculture -- This septic isle : post-imperial melancholy -- Foul contagion spread : ecology and environmentalism -- Female counter-literature : feminism -- Strange bedfellows : gay liberation -- Saving the family? Children's fiction -- Eating the audience : blockbusters -- Chariots of the gods : pseudoscience and parental fears -- Towers of Babel : the architecture of SF -- Ruptures : metafiction and postmodernism. |
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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
ISBN |
9781846317798 (electronic book) |
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1846317797 (electronic book) |
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9781846318344 (cloth) |
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1846318343 (cloth) |
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