From here to infinity : an exploration of science fiction literature /
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| Format: | CD Audio Book |
| Language: | English |
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Prince Frederick, Md. :
Recorded Books,
[2006]
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| Series: | Modern scholar.
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Table of Contents:
- Lecture 1. What is science fiction?
- Lecture 2. The roots of science fiction.
- Lecture 3. Mysterious lore, marvelous tech: the 1930s
- Lecture 4. Hard-boiled science fiction: the 1940s
- Lecture 5. The grand master: Robert A. Heinlein
- Lecture 6. Onward and outward: the 1950s, space travel, apocalypticism, and the beautiful weirdness of Cordwainer Smith
- Lecture 7. A new set of questions: the "new wave" of the 1960s and 1970s
- Lecture 8. The world builder: Frank Herbert
- Lecture 9. The surrealists: Ballard and Bradbury
- Lecture 10. The computer revolution: cyberpunk and the 1980s
- Lecture 11. Post-punk: Neal Stephenson
- Lecture 12. Women and gender
- Lecture 13. The satirists
- Lecture 14. The shape of things to come.