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Dieter Wuckel, Bruce Cassiday
The Illustrated History of Science Fiction
Язык издания: английский
Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1989 г.
Тираж: не указан
ISBN: 3-361-00225-7
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Формат: другой
Страниц: 260
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Описание:
Originally published as a German language title: adapted for the US market Dieter Wuckel's Science Fiction: eine illustrierte literaturgeschichte (1986; trans Jenny Vowles as The Illustrated History of Science Fiction 1989).
Lots of black-and-white illustrations of authors, books, magazines, and movies. Heavy emphasis on European authors and science fiction. Several paperback covers are present.
Cover is a still from the film «Metropolis».
Содержание:
- Bruce Cassiday, Dieter Wuckel. The Illustrated History of Science Fiction (энциклопедия/справочник, перевод Д. Воулс)
- Preface, c. vii-viii
- Beginnings
- Science Fiction or Scientific Fantasy: What Is It?, c. 1-6
- Classic Social Utopias and Fantasies, c. 6-26
- The Industrial Revolution and Its Reflection in Fantasy
- Animal Magnetism, Monsters, and Automatons, c. 27-40
- Jules Verne and His “Voyages Extraordinaires”, c. 40-51
- The Giant of Science Fiction: H.G. Wells, c. 51-64
- The Revival of Social Utopian Literature, c. 65-70
- Technological Fantasy and Planet Stories, c. 70-81
- The Descent into the Trivial, c. 81-87
- The Growth of Science Fiction After World War I
- Dreams of World Revolution and the “Fantasy of the Near Future”: Soviet Science Fiction Between 1917 and 1956, c. 88-101
- Hugo Gernsback and After: Anglo-American Science Fiction to the 1950s, c. 102-128
- Robots, Warnings, and Rockets: European Science Fiction between 1918 and 1955, c. 129-152
- Science Fiction in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
- The Increasing Internationalization of Modern Science Fiction, c. 153-155
- The Science Fiction of the Socialist Countries, c. 156-186
- The Americanization of Western Science Fiction, c. 187-216
- Themes, Subjects, and Motifs in Modern Science Fiction
- [In science fiction...], c. 217-220
- Self-Knowledge and Human Nature, c. 220-223
- The Individual and Society, c. 223-225
- The Individual and Technology, c. 225-228
- People and Time, c. 228-231
- People and Space, c. 232-236
- Humans and Aliens, c. 236-240
- Conclusion, c. 241-242
- Appendix
- Notes, c. 243-248
- Bibliography, c. 249-250
- Acknowledgments, c. 251-251
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Размер книги: 21х27,5 см.
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