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Scotland as science fiction /
Scots like Iain N. Banks and Ken MacLeod lead in a futuristic tradition, for from MacDonald, Barrie, and Stevenson onwards, Scots have been speculating in ways derived from their unique circumstances: lacking political power, they imagine future spaces and different places-with a twist. Nineteenth-c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewisburg [Pa.] :
Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
c2012.
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| Colección: | Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Scots like Iain N. Banks and Ken MacLeod lead in a futuristic tradition, for from MacDonald, Barrie, and Stevenson onwards, Scots have been speculating in ways derived from their unique circumstances: lacking political power, they imagine future spaces and different places-with a twist. Nineteenth-century thermodynamics (theorized in Scotland), Celtic Otherworlds, and a Scotland always on the ""other side"" of history open unusual futures for Mitchison, Spark, Lindsay, Mitchell, MadDiarmid, Morgan, Crumey, Fitt, and Gray |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 197 p.). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611483758 1611483751 1283302691 9781283302692 9786613302694 6613302694 |