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Future wars : the anticipations and the fears /
The subject of this book is that body of fiction which speculates in narrative form about the nature of wars likely to break out in the near or distant future.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ;
42. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Future-war fiction: the first main phase, 1871-1900 / L.F. Clarke
- How America's fictions of future war have changed the world / H. Bruce Franklin
- War is peace: conscription and mobilization in the modern Utopia / Patrick Parrinder
- From invasion to liberation: alternative vision of Mars, Planet of War / Robert Crossley
- John Henry Palmer's The invasion of New York, or how Hawaii was annexed: political discourse and emergent mass culture in 1897 / John Rieder
- John Wyndham's World War II and his abandoned Fury of Creation Trilogy / David Ketterer
- Prophesying neocolonial wars in 1950s American science fiction / Rob Latham
- On the Beach: British nuclear fiction and the Spaces of Empire's End / Brian Baker
- Adapting the absurd apocalypse: Eugene Burdick's and Harvey Wheeler's Fail-Safe and its cinematic progeny / Nicholas Ruddick
- The Strategic Defense Initiative: a utopian fantasy / David Seed
- When all wars are done: the transcendent humanity of Iain M. Banks / Patricia Kerslake
- 'The benefit and handicap of hindsight': modeling risk and reassessing future-war fiction after the 9/11-induced shift to a US national security strategy of pre-emptive attack / A. Michael Matin
- The war after next: anticipating future conflict in the new millennium / Antulio J. Echevarria II
- The writings of I.F. Clarke: a checklist.