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UNINA9910785293003321 |
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Titolo |
World weavers [[electronic resource] ] : globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution / / edited by Wong Kin Yuen, Gary Westfahl and Amy Kit-sze Chan |
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Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-70738-8 |
9786612707384 |
988-220-312-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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WongKin-yuen <1944-> |
WestfahlGary |
ChanAmy Kit-sze |
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Soggetti |
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Science fiction - History and criticism |
Cybernetics in literature |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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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 (p. [287]-300) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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From semaphors and steamships to servers and spaceships: the saga of globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution / Gary Westfahl -- Going mobile: tradition, technology, and the cultural monad / George Slusser -- Urge et Orbe: a prehistory of the postmodern world city / Howard V. Hendrix -- 2001, or a cyberpalace odyssey: toward the ideographic imagination / Takayuki Tatsumi -- The genealogy of the cyborg in Japanese popular culture / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Hermeneutics and Taiwan science fiction / Wong Kin Yuen -- Is utopia obsolete? Imploding boundaries in Neal Stephenson's The diamond age / N. Katherine Hayles -- Tales of futures passed: the Kipling continuum and other lost worlds of science fiction / Andy Sawyer -- Globalization in Japanese science fiction, 1900 and 1963: The seabed warship and its re-interpretation . Thonmas Schnellbacher -- The limits of "humanity" in comparative perspective: Cordwainer Smith and the Soushenji / Lisa Raphals -- The idea of the Asian in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle / Jake Jakaitis -- Godzilla's travels: the evolution of a globalized gargantuan / Gary Westfahl -- |
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