Dying planet [[electronic resource] ] : Mars in science and the imagination / / Robert Markley |
Autore | Markley Robert <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (457 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.087620936 |
Soggetto topico | Science fiction, American - History and criticism |
ISBN | 0-8223-8727-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | "A situation in many respects similar to our own" : Mars and the limits of analogy -- Lowell and the canal controversy : Mars at the limits of vision -- "Different beyond the most bizarre imaginings of nightmare" : Mars in science fiction, 1880-1913 -- Lichens on Mars : planetary science and the limits of knowledge -- Mars at the limits of imagination : the dying planet from Burroughs to Dick -- The missions to Mars : Mariner, Viking, and the reinvention of a world -- Transforming Mars, transforming humankind : science fiction in the space age -- Mars at the turn of a new century -- Falling into theory : terraformation and eco-economics in Kim Stanley -- Robinson's Martian trilogy. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777989803321 |
Markley Robert <1952-> | ||
Durham, : Duke University Press, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Dying planet : Mars in science and the imagination / / Robert Markley |
Autore | Markley Robert <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (457 p.) |
Disciplina |
813/.087620936
813.087620936 |
Soggetto topico | Science fiction, American - History and criticism |
ISBN | 0-8223-8727-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | "A situation in many respects similar to our own" : Mars and the limits of analogy -- Lowell and the canal controversy : Mars at the limits of vision -- "Different beyond the most bizarre imaginings of nightmare" : Mars in science fiction, 1880-1913 -- Lichens on Mars : planetary science and the limits of knowledge -- Mars at the limits of imagination : the dying planet from Burroughs to Dick -- The missions to Mars : Mariner, Viking, and the reinvention of a world -- Transforming Mars, transforming humankind : science fiction in the space age -- Mars at the turn of a new century -- Falling into theory : terraformation and eco-economics in Kim Stanley -- Robinson's Martian trilogy. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824217703321 |
Markley Robert <1952-> | ||
Durham, : Duke University Press, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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