Research Catalog

Title

Science fiction quotations : from the inner mind to the outer limits / edited by Gary Westfahl ; with a foreword by Arthur C. Clarke.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Westfahl, Gary.

Description

xxi, 461 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

In this unprecedented collection of science fiction and fantasy quotations, the reader revisits the stunning moment when Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein monster first comes to life; witnesses the transformation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde; is present when Bruce Wayne resolves to become Batman; and overhears the cosmic conclusions of The Incredible Shrinking Man. Drawing upon two centuries of the vast and provocative literature of science fiction and fantasy, this comprehensive book presents more than 2,900 quotations from wide-ranging sources, including science fiction and fantasy stories, novels, films, and television programs. The quotations are organized by topic—alien worlds; darkness and light; robots, androids, and cyborgs; machines and technology; weapons; and more than one hundred others. The reader will encounter the wit and wisdom of renowned authors (H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin) along with definitive versions of such important statements as Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics and Star Trek’s Prime Directive. With its thorough index, this book is both an invaluable resource for the writer or scholar and an irresistible page-turner for the curious browser. -- Publisher's description.

Subject

Science fiction > Quotations, maxims, etc

Genre/Form

• quotations (texts)
• Quotations
• Quotations.
• Citations.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Actions 1 -- Aliens 3 -- Alien Worlds 9 -- Ambition and Hope 13 -- Animals 15 -- Apocalypse 18 -- The Arts 24 -- Astronauts and Space Travelers 27 -- Beauty 30 -- Belief 31 -- The Body 34 -- Buildings and Architecture 38 -- Business and Economics 40 -- Change 44 -- Children and Young People 47 -- Choice 50 -- Cities 52 -- Civilization and Barbarism 54 -- Class System 58 -- Clothing and Nudity 60 -- Communication and Speech 61 -- Communities 64 -- Computers 66 -- Cosmology and Eschatology 69 -- Courage and Cowardice 73 -- Cultures and Anthropology 75 -- Darkness and Light 78 -- Death 80 -- Destiny 90 -- Dimensions 91 -- Dreams and Sleep 95 -- Earth 100 -- Education 103 -- Emotions 107 -- Evil 110 -- Evolution 113 -- Exploration and Adventure 116 -- Fear and Horror 121 -- Flying 124 -- Folly and Stupidity 125 -- Food and Drink 127 -- Freedom 130 -- Friendship 132 -- The Future 134 -- God 139 -- Gods and Demons 143 -- Governments 145 -- Happiness and Sadness 150 -- Heroes and Superheroes 154 -- History 157 -- Humanity 163 -- Humor and Laughter 178 -- Imagination and Ideas 180 -- Immortality 182 -- Impossibility 185 -- Individualism and Identity 186 -- Intelligence 189 -- Justice 193 -- Kindness 196 -- Knowledge and Information 198 -- Language 204 -- Laws and Crimes 208 -- The Laws of Science Fiction 211 -- Life 215 -- Logic 221 -- Loneliness and Solitude 223 -- Love and Romance 226 -- Machines and Technology 230 -- Madness and Sanity 234 -- Marriage 238 -- Mathematics 240 -- Media 241 -- Medicine and Disease 243 -- Memory 245 -- Money 247 -- Monsters 248 -- Morality 252 -- Mothers and Fathers 254 -- Music 256 -- Nature 258 -- Old Age 261 -- Overpopulation 263 -- Pain and Suffering 265 -- Paradoxes 267 -- Paranoia 268 -- Perception and Vision 270 -- Plants 274 -- Politics 276 -- Power 279 -- Problems 283 -- Progress 285 -- Psychic Powers 291 -- Psychology 292 -- Race Relations 300 -- Reality 302 -- Religion 306 -- Revolution and Rebellion 311 -- Roads and Automobiles 313 -- Robots, Androids, and Cyborgs 315 -- Science 320 -- Science Fiction 323 -- Scientists 332 -- The Sea 335 -- Secrets and Mysteries 337 -- Sex 338 -- Space 340 -- Spaceships 345 -- Space Travel 347 -- Stars 355 -- Stories and Writers 358 -- Surrealism 361 -- Survival 364 -- Thinking 367 -- Time 370 -- Time Travel 375 -- Travel 378 -- Truth 380 -- The Universe 385 -- The Unknown 392 -- Utopia 393 -- Violence 397 -- War and Peace 400 -- Wealth and Possessions 405 -- Weapons 408 -- Wisdom 409 -- Women and Men 412 -- Work 417.

ISBN

0300108001 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005003195

OCLC

• 57669983
• SCSB-10687747

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library