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Frontiers past and future : science fiction and the American West
- Title
- Frontiers past and future : science fiction and the American West / Carl Abbott.
- Author
- Abbott, Carl.
- Publication
- Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2006.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 230 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Western stories > History and criticism
- American fiction > West (U.S.) > History and criticism
- Science fiction, American > History and criticism
- Alternative histories (Fiction), American > History and criticism
- Literature and history > West (U.S.)
- West (U.S.) > In literature
- Frontier and pioneer life in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-218) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Launching pads -- Never final frontiers -- Beyond Alaska: Sourdoughs, Lunies, Belters, and other tough guys -- Science projects -- Johnny Appleseed, John Wayne, and homesteading on the extraterrestrial frontier -- Frontier democracy -- On the urban edge -- Information everywhere: Pacific destinies in the twenty-first century -- Bigger than Texas! Americans, our Wests, and science fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-5923
- ISBN
- 0700614303 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005027616
- OCLC
- 61748277
- Author
- Abbott, Carl.
- Title
- Frontiers past and future : science fiction and the American West / Carl Abbott.
- Imprint
- Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-218) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-5923