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Electric sheep slouching towards Bethlehem : speculative fiction in a post modern world / edited by Harry Edwin Eiss.

Title
Electric sheep slouching towards Bethlehem : speculative fiction in a post modern world / edited by Harry Edwin Eiss.
Publication
Newcastle Upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

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Additional Authors
Eiss, Harry Edwin
Description
xi, 163 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
On Monday, 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. In the single largest act of destruction ever initiated by humans, a bomb with the equivalent force of 20,000 tons of TNT shattered Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands of civilians, people who had become used to the American war planes flying overhead, planes that were purposely not dropping bombs on their city, to the point where the rush to the bomb shelters had become somewhat lackadaisical, and the normal activities continued with little interruption. This is the precise instant we entered the postmodern world, one where the easy truths of centuries no longer applied. This title explores how speculative fiction projects real possibilities beyond the now shattered assumptions, moving through marginalized fictional landscapes.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Speculative fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Science fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The dead do tell tales / Noreen Parker -- Critical thinking and science fiction in a postmodern world / Sharon Strean -- Zombie apocalypse? Blame it on Detroit / Diane Matsumoto -- Postmodern miles and closing the narrative gap with biology / Valerie M. Buck -- In search of soul / Nicole Willett -- Redefining the masculine hegemony : gender and sexual politics in Star trek / Dale Palmer -- Man of steel 2013, redux / Regina Wilbur -- Lessons learned from science fiction / Jeff Blakeslee -- Superman, everyman / Benjamin Luke Erickson -- The 2D pantheon : superheroes as the modern mythology / Johnathan Rase.
ISBN
  • 9781443856362 (hardback)
  • 1443856363 (hardback)
OCLC
  • 871508318
  • SCSB-12431794
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library