Author: EDWARD JAMES
Title: Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
Description: Oxford University Press, 1994. Paperback. Pp: 250. Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century is the first book to challenge the traditional approach to Sf. as a series of texts and authors. Sf. is identified as a cultural phenomenon whose ideas and imagery, through books, films, television, computer games, and children's toys, have become part of the everyday language of the late twentieth century. Edward James traces the development of Sf. as a distinct genre from 1895, the year of publication of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, through the growing American domination of the field in the 1930s and 1940s, to the emergence of cyberpunk in the 1980s. A peculiarly twentieth century genre, Sf. has tried to make sense of the rapidity of technological change and the impact which science and technology have made on our society. By imagining other worlds and possible futures, the genre allows us to view our present-day situation with greater detachment and perspective. ISBN: 9780192892447. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.
Keywords: 9780192892447
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Title: Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
Description: Oxford University Press, 1994. Paperback. Pp: 250. Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century is the first book to challenge the traditional approach to Sf. as a series of texts and authors. Sf. is identified as a cultural phenomenon whose ideas and imagery, through books, films, television, computer games, and children's toys, have become part of the everyday language of the late twentieth century. Edward James traces the development of Sf. as a distinct genre from 1895, the year of publication of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, through the growing American domination of the field in the 1930s and 1940s, to the emergence of cyberpunk in the 1980s. A peculiarly twentieth century genre, Sf. has tried to make sense of the rapidity of technological change and the impact which science and technology have made on our society. By imagining other worlds and possible futures, the genre allows us to view our present-day situation with greater detachment and perspective. ISBN: 9780192892447. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.
Keywords: 9780192892447
Price: EUR 10.00 = appr. US$ 10.87 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1866318
- Book number: 1866318
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