The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the WorldFrom one of science fiction's most acclaimed novelists comes this engrossing journey through the books, movies, and television programs that have shaped our perspective of both the present and the future. In an uncompromising, often irreverent survey of the genre from Edgar Allan Poe to Philip K. Dick to Star Trek, Thomas M. Disch analyzes science fiction's impact on technological innovation, fashion, lifestyle, military strategy, the media, and much more. An illuminating look at the art of science fiction (with a practitioner's insight into craft), as well as a work of pointed literary and cultural criticism, The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of reveals how this "pulp genre" has captured the popular imagination while transforming the physical and social world in which we live. |
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Nutzerbericht - Kellswitch - LibraryThingI am a bit mixed on this one. On one hand, it was well written and informative and I found many of his points interesting even if I didn't agree with them. On the other hand, well I don't think Thomas ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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Nutzerbericht - iftyzaidi - LibraryThingBy turns, acerbic, witty, thoughtful, arrogant, vicious and sympathetic, this book is really more a collection of essays about various themes and issues related to the genre that Disch wants to talk ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Inhalt
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Star Trek or the Future as a Lifestyle | 97 |
Can Girls Play Too? Feminizing Science Fiction | 115 |
When You Wish Upon a StarScience Fiction as a Religion | 137 |
Republicans on MarsScience Fiction as Military Strategy | 163 |
The Third World and Other Alien Nations | 185 |
The Future of an IllusionScience Fiction Beyond the | 208 |
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World A Touchstone book The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World, Thomas M. Disch |
| Autor/in | Thomas M. Disch |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | Simon and Schuster, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0684859785, 9780684859781 |
| Länge | 256 Seiten |
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