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Futuristic cars and space bicycles : contesting the road in American science fiction /

Given the extensive influence of the 'transport revolution' on the past two centuries (a time when trains, trams, omnibuses, bicycles, cars, airplanes, and so forth were invented), and given science fiction's overall obsession with machines and technologies of all kinds, it is surpris...

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Main Author:	Withers, Jeremy (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Liverpool, [United Kingdom] : Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Series:	Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 66.
Subjects:	Science fiction, American > History and criticism. Transportation in literature. Automobiles in literature. Bicycles in literature. Automobiles dans la littérature. Bicyclettes dans la littérature. Automobiles in literature Bicycles in literature Science fiction, American Transportation in literature Fahrrad > Motiv Personenkraftwagen > Motiv Science-Fiction Transportmittel USA Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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