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Solar flares : science fiction in the 1970s /

Solar Flares examines the ways in which science fiction confronted a new epoch and its own history, including the rise of fantasy, the sci-fi blockbuster, children's sci-fi, pseudoscience, and postmodernism. It explores significant figures such as Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delaney, and Octavia But...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Butler, Andrew M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.
Colección:Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 43.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.