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Storm warnings : science fiction confronts the future /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale, Ill. :
Southern Illinois University Press,
©1987.
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| Colección: | Alternatives.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Science fiction confronts the future / George E. Slusser, Colin Greenland, and Eric S. Rabkin
- pt. 1. Originating the future: Storm warnings and dead zones: imagination and the future / George E. Slusser
- Origins of futuristic fiction: Felix Bodin's Novel of the future / Paul Alkon
- Anticipating the past: the time riddle in science fiction / Marie-Hélène Huet
- The thing of shapes to come: science fiction as anatomy of the future / Howard V. Hendrix
- Knowing the unknown: Heinlein, Lem, and the future / Bradford Lyau
- Reactionary Utopias / Gregory Benford
- Media, message, and myths: three fictionists for the near future / José Manuel Mota
- pt. 2. Orwell: an interim report: Coming up on 1984 / Frederik Pohl
- O'Brien's interim report / George Hay
- Images of Nineteen eighty-four: fiction and prediction / Colin Greenland
- Orwell and the uses of the future / John Huntington
- One man's tomorrow in another's today: the reader's world and its impact on Nineteen eighty-four / Elizabeth Maslen
- Big brother antichrist: Orwell, apocalypse, and overpopulation / W.M.S. Russell and Claire Russell
- Variations on newspeak: the open question of Nineteen eighty-four / T.A. Shippey
- pt. 3. Alienation, prognostication, and apocalypse: Aliens for the alienated / Kenneth V. Bailey
- News versus fiction: reflections on prognostication / Gary Kern
- Boring dates: reflections on the apocalypse game / Frank McConnell.