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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| Language: | English |
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Liverpool, [United Kingdom] :
Liverpool University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Perfectibility and techno-optimism in the pulp era
- 2. Murderous cars, space bikes, and alien bicycles in the Golden Age
- 3. Electric cars, autoduelling, and bike shares in the New Wave
- 4. Messenger skateboards and messenger bikes in postcyberpunk
- 5. Staying mobile in postapocalyptic cli-fi
- 6. Kids on bikes in twenty-first-century nostalgia science fiction
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.