Author: Halbert W. Hall
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Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Author: Halbert W. Hall
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Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Author: Halbert W. Hall
Publisher: Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Author: Brooks Landon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136761187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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First published in 2003. Brooks Landon analyses science fiction not as a set of rules for writers, but as a set of expectations for readers. He presents science fiction as a social phenomenon that moves beyond literary experience through a sense of mission based on the belief that SF can be a tool to help you think. He offers a broad overview of the genre and the stages through which it has developed in the twentieth century from the dime store novel through the New Wave of the '60s, the cyberpunk '80s, and soft agenda SF of the '90s. The writers he examines range for E. M. Forster and John W. Campbell to Philip K. Dick and Ursula K. Le Guin. He also examines the large body of criticism now devoted to the genre and includes a bibliographic essay and a list of recommended titles.
Author: Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321871
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Languages : en
Pages : 2816
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Author: Michael Burgess
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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An annotated list of reference works in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction.
Author: G. Kim Dority
Publisher: Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Aiming to be useful for identifying gaps in core reference collections, for filling out a particular subject area, for determining what to weed out and what to keep, and for checking for new editions and related materials, this bibliography should be a handy reference for all information professionals seeking to build up a quality reference collection. Approximately 1,000 entries have been culled from the more than 8,500 entries appearing in ARBA 1987-1991, covering reference titles with imprints of 1986-1990. Titles have been chosen on the basis of their usefulness to practising librarians. The lengthy reviews have been updated and in some instances, completely rewritten to reflect new editions, with expanded coverage, additional citations to published reviews, and price changes.
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Author: P. D. Smith
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429984864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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This is the gripping, untold story of the doomsday bomb—the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. In 1950, Hungarian-born scientist Leo Szilard made a dramatic announcement on American radio: science was on the verge of creating a doomsday bomb. For the first time in history, mankind realized that he had within his grasp a truly God-like power, the ability to destroy life itself. The shockwave from this statement reverberated across the following decade and beyond. If detonated, Szilard's doomsday device—a huge cobalt-clad H-bomb—would pollute the atmosphere with radioactivity and end all life on earth. The scientific creators of such apocalyptic weapons had transformed the laws of nature into instruments of mass destruction and for many people in the Cold War there was little to distinguish real scientists from that "fictional master of megadeath," Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. Indeed, as PD Smith's chilling account, Doomsday Men, shows, the dream of the superweapon begins in popular culture. This is a story that cannot be told without the iconic films and fictions that portray our deadly fascination with superweapons, from H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds to Nevil Shute's On the Beach and Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Although scientists admitted it was possible to build the cobalt bomb, no superpower would admit to having created one. However, it remained a terrifying possibility, striking fear into the hearts of people around the world. The story of the cobalt bomb is an unwritten chapter of the Cold War, but now PD Smith reveals the personalities behind this feared technology and shows how the scientists responsible for the twentieth century's most terrible weapons grew up in a culture dreaming of superweapons and Wellsian utopias. He argues that, in the end, the doomsday machine became the ultimate symbol of humanity's deepest fears about the science of destruction.