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UNINA9910463324603321 |
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Autore |
Butler Andrew M |
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Titolo |
Solar flares [[electronic resource] ] : science fiction in the 1970s / / Andrew M. Butler |
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Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-78138-798-2 |
1-78138-922-5 |
1-84631-779-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (723 p.) |
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Collana |
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Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies |
Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; ; 43 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Science fiction - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1 The Ends of First Sf: Pioneers as Veterans; 2 After the New Wave: After Science Fiction?; 3 Beyond Apollo: Space Fictions after the Moon Landing; 4 Big Dumb Objects: Science Fiction as Self-Parody; 5 The Rise of Fantasy: Swords and Planets; 6 Home of the Extraterrestrial Brothers: Race and African American Science Fiction; 7 Alien Invaders: Vietnam and the Counterculture; 8 This Septic Isle: Post-Imperial Melancholy; 9 Foul Contagion Spread: Ecology and Environmentalism |
10 Female Counter-Literature: Feminism11 Strange Bedfellows: Gay Liberation; 12 Saving the Family? Children's Fiction; 13 Eating the Audience: Blockbusters; 14 Chariots of the Gods: Pseudoscience and Parental Fears; 15 Towers of Babel: The Architecture of Sf; 16 Ruptures: Metafiction and Postmodernism; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as ""confused, self-involved, and stale."" The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf - on the one hand it aspired to be a serious form, addressing issues such as race, Vietnam, feminism, ecology and |
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