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Biopouvoir en culture de l'écran
| Biopouvoir en culture de l'écran |
| Autore | Arnauld Regnauld |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Rennes, France, : Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2026 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (314 p.) |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
Monica Michlin
Hélène Machinal |
| Soggetto topico |
LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy
PHILOSOPHY / Political |
| ISBN | 979-1-04-131115-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911115406803321 |
Arnauld Regnauld
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| Rennes, France, : Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2026 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Editing the Soul : Science and Fiction in the Genome Age
| Editing the Soul : Science and Fiction in the Genome Age |
| Autore | Hamner Everett |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel/Berlin/Boston : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809.38762 |
| Collana | AnthropoScene: the SLSA Book |
| Soggetto topico | LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| ISBN |
9780271080543
027108054X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Regenesis -- 1. Genetics as Science, Ideology, and Fiction -- 2. The Evolution of Genetic Fantasy -- 3. The Cultural Determinism of Genetic Realism -- 4. Serpent Women, Prophets, and Satire in Genetic Metafiction -- 5. The Predisposed Agency of Genetics and Fiction -- Coda: Arrival -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911009170703321 |
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Hamner Everett
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| Basel/Berlin/Boston : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , 2017 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lingua Cosmica [[electronic resource] ] : Science Fiction from around the World / / edited by Dale Knickerbocker
| Lingua Cosmica [[electronic resource] ] : Science Fiction from around the World / / edited by Dale Knickerbocker |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
| Collana | Illinois scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy Science fiction - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-252-05042-8 |
| Classificazione | LIT004260BIO007000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796825403321 |
| Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, [2018] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lingua Cosmica : Science Fiction from around the World / / edited by Dale Knickerbocker
| Lingua Cosmica : Science Fiction from around the World / / edited by Dale Knickerbocker |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
| Collana | Illinois scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy Science fiction - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-252-05042-8 |
| Classificazione | LIT004260BIO007000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911106034703321 |
| Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, [2018] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lingua Cosmica : Science Fiction from around the World / / edited by Dale Knickerbocker
| Lingua Cosmica : Science Fiction from around the World / / edited by Dale Knickerbocker |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
| Collana | Illinois scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy Science fiction - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-252-05042-8 |
| Classificazione | LIT004260BIO007000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911142358403321 |
| Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, [2018] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lottery Fantasies, Follies, and Controversies : A Cultural History of European Lotteries
| Lottery Fantasies, Follies, and Controversies : A Cultural History of European Lotteries |
| Autore | Kristiansen Johanne Slettvoll |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (460 pages) |
| Disciplina | 795.38094 |
| Soggetto topico |
LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture SPORTS & RECREATION / General |
| ISBN |
3-11-144554-2
9783111445540 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents -- Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen, Marius Warholm Haugen, and Angela Fabris -- A Cultural History of European Lotteries - Introductory Essay -- 1 A brief history of European lotteries -- 2 Lottery schemes explained -- 3 Lotteries and the cultural imagination -- 4 A transnational and transmedial history -- Bibliography -- Jeroen Puttevils -- Criticising the Lottery in Its Cradle - The Low Countries in the Long Sixteenth Century -- 1 Necessity breeds innovation: the first lotteries in the fifteenth century -- 2 Outright justification and connivance in the first two thirds of the sixteenth century -- 3 The pros and cons of a state lottery in the second half of the sixteenth century -- 4 Late sixteenth-century humanist justifications and growing moral pressure against lotteries -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- James Raven -- Imagining Trust and Justice - The Rise and Fall of the English State Lottery 1694-1826 -- 1 Trust and risk -- 2 Fairness -- 3 Corruption -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Michael Scham -- The Failed Promise and the Success of the Spanish Lottery -- 1 Early modern background and polemics surrounding play -- 2 Promises of economic benefit and social order -- 3 Recreation and economic speculation in the Enlightenment state -- 4 Lottery literature in eighteenth-century Spain: two satirical sainetes -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Angela Fabris -- The Ambivalent Perceptions of the Genoese Lotto and the Idea of the Magic Circle in the Italian Literary Discourse of the Eighteenth Century -- 1 Towards an anthropology in verse of the eighteenth-century lottery player -- 2 Female figures between pseudo-rationality, kabbalah, and dream interpretation -- 3 Numerical and alphabetical lottos between literary play, truth, and fiction -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Marius Warholm Haugen.
Staging Lotteries in the Age of the Loterie de France (1776-1836) -- 1 Categorising lottery comedies -- 2 Satire and institutional critique in the lotto comedy -- 3 The lotto comedy as economic fiction -- 4 Negotiating value: the marital lottery comedy as economic fiction -- 5 For ten écus to become a prince: the property lottery comedy as economic fiction -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Jeroen Salman -- The Political, Socio-Economic, and Cultural Impact of Lotteries on Dutch Society (1700-1850) -- 1 Central power and regional autonomy -- 1.1 Establishing the state lottery -- 1.2 Local and provincial lotteries -- 2 Lottery discourses -- 2.1 Social and economic benefits -- 2.2 Moral and social harm -- 2.3 Jews as scapegoats for the lottery's ills -- 3 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen -- Innovation, Temptation, and Mathematical Education - The Dano-Norwegian Lotto and the Struggle for Opinion -- 1 Promoting the lotto: innovation, agency, and flexibility -- 2 Concerns arise: were the people tempted into gambling addiction and ruin? -- 3 "It is as if everything takes place under a closed lid" -- or, the battle over transparency -- 4 Mathematical education: removing the lid through numerical tables and pedagogical examples -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga -- "If I Had the Great Prize…" - Lottery Fantasies in Lottery Rhymes from the Early Modern Low Countries -- 1 Lottery rhymes as a source -- 2 The lotteries of Bruges 1555 and Haarlem 1607 -- 3 Dreams of saving money (or spending prudently) -- 4 Dreams of charity in the Haarlem lottery -- 5 Dreams of spending -- 6 Changing one's life -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Tilman Haug -- Selling Like a State? Lottery Advertising, Commercial Rivalries, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Germany. 1 Lotteries in the Holy Roman Empire: developments and key problems -- 2 "They do not want to trust us": marketing, advertising, and decision-making around the Saxonian state lottery in 1723-1725 -- 3 Open books: financial security and the transparency of administrative procedure as themes in lottery advertising -- 4 The duty of a true patriot? (Counter) advertising for lotteries and the issue of market competition -- 5 Who is at risk? The impact of public moral critique on advertising the lotto in late eighteenth-century Germany -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Archival sources -- Printed works -- Natalie Devin Hoage -- Lottery Advertisements and Comedies in Late Georgian England -- 1 Advertising the lottery with lottery comedies -- 2 Advertising the lottery with non-lottery comedies -- 3 Conclusion: generating fictions out of fictions -- Bibliography -- Anne Beate Maurseth -- Jackpot! Turning the Lottery Fantasy into a Societal Critique - Le Gros lot by Hector Chaussier -- 1 Easy-going and light-hearted at the Palace of Equality -- 2 The sudden event - out of the blue -- 3 Chance effects or causal chain of events? -- 4 Jackpot and the lures of consumption -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Paul Goring -- The Lottery in British Prose Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century -- 1 Early fiction, satire, and the metaphor for marriage -- 2 Magazines and miscellanies -- 3 Edal Village: Or, The Fortunate Lottery Ticket (1781) -- 4 Anti-lottery prose fiction -- 5 Conclusion: the draw of the draw -- Bibliography -- Inga Henriette Undheim -- Lottery Dreams in Dano-Norwegian Skilling Ballads -- 1 Lottery ballads -- 2 The ballads featured in this chapter -- 3 Lottery dreams -- 4 Imagined winners -- 5 Fatal winners -- 6 Dreams go up in smoke -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Marius Warholm Haugen. "Plus de loterie!" - Cultural Responses to the Abolition of the French State Lottery -- 1 The lottery fantasy as consolation for the poor -- 2 Imagining histories of the lottery -- 3 A world disappearing: the lottery and the fallen dowager -- 4 Lottery, reverie, poetry -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Name Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911129179403321 |
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Kristiansen Johanne Slettvoll
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| Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2025 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lottery Fantasies, Follies, and Controversies : A Cultural History of European Lotteries
| Lottery Fantasies, Follies, and Controversies : A Cultural History of European Lotteries |
| Autore | Kristiansen Johanne Slettvoll |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (460 pages) |
| Disciplina | 795.38094 |
| Soggetto topico |
LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture SPORTS & RECREATION / General |
| ISBN |
3-11-144554-2
9783111445540 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents -- Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen, Marius Warholm Haugen, and Angela Fabris -- A Cultural History of European Lotteries - Introductory Essay -- 1 A brief history of European lotteries -- 2 Lottery schemes explained -- 3 Lotteries and the cultural imagination -- 4 A transnational and transmedial history -- Bibliography -- Jeroen Puttevils -- Criticising the Lottery in Its Cradle - The Low Countries in the Long Sixteenth Century -- 1 Necessity breeds innovation: the first lotteries in the fifteenth century -- 2 Outright justification and connivance in the first two thirds of the sixteenth century -- 3 The pros and cons of a state lottery in the second half of the sixteenth century -- 4 Late sixteenth-century humanist justifications and growing moral pressure against lotteries -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- James Raven -- Imagining Trust and Justice - The Rise and Fall of the English State Lottery 1694-1826 -- 1 Trust and risk -- 2 Fairness -- 3 Corruption -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Michael Scham -- The Failed Promise and the Success of the Spanish Lottery -- 1 Early modern background and polemics surrounding play -- 2 Promises of economic benefit and social order -- 3 Recreation and economic speculation in the Enlightenment state -- 4 Lottery literature in eighteenth-century Spain: two satirical sainetes -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Angela Fabris -- The Ambivalent Perceptions of the Genoese Lotto and the Idea of the Magic Circle in the Italian Literary Discourse of the Eighteenth Century -- 1 Towards an anthropology in verse of the eighteenth-century lottery player -- 2 Female figures between pseudo-rationality, kabbalah, and dream interpretation -- 3 Numerical and alphabetical lottos between literary play, truth, and fiction -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Marius Warholm Haugen.
Staging Lotteries in the Age of the Loterie de France (1776-1836) -- 1 Categorising lottery comedies -- 2 Satire and institutional critique in the lotto comedy -- 3 The lotto comedy as economic fiction -- 4 Negotiating value: the marital lottery comedy as economic fiction -- 5 For ten écus to become a prince: the property lottery comedy as economic fiction -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Jeroen Salman -- The Political, Socio-Economic, and Cultural Impact of Lotteries on Dutch Society (1700-1850) -- 1 Central power and regional autonomy -- 1.1 Establishing the state lottery -- 1.2 Local and provincial lotteries -- 2 Lottery discourses -- 2.1 Social and economic benefits -- 2.2 Moral and social harm -- 2.3 Jews as scapegoats for the lottery's ills -- 3 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen -- Innovation, Temptation, and Mathematical Education - The Dano-Norwegian Lotto and the Struggle for Opinion -- 1 Promoting the lotto: innovation, agency, and flexibility -- 2 Concerns arise: were the people tempted into gambling addiction and ruin? -- 3 "It is as if everything takes place under a closed lid" -- or, the battle over transparency -- 4 Mathematical education: removing the lid through numerical tables and pedagogical examples -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga -- "If I Had the Great Prize…" - Lottery Fantasies in Lottery Rhymes from the Early Modern Low Countries -- 1 Lottery rhymes as a source -- 2 The lotteries of Bruges 1555 and Haarlem 1607 -- 3 Dreams of saving money (or spending prudently) -- 4 Dreams of charity in the Haarlem lottery -- 5 Dreams of spending -- 6 Changing one's life -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Tilman Haug -- Selling Like a State? Lottery Advertising, Commercial Rivalries, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Germany. 1 Lotteries in the Holy Roman Empire: developments and key problems -- 2 "They do not want to trust us": marketing, advertising, and decision-making around the Saxonian state lottery in 1723-1725 -- 3 Open books: financial security and the transparency of administrative procedure as themes in lottery advertising -- 4 The duty of a true patriot? (Counter) advertising for lotteries and the issue of market competition -- 5 Who is at risk? The impact of public moral critique on advertising the lotto in late eighteenth-century Germany -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Archival sources -- Printed works -- Natalie Devin Hoage -- Lottery Advertisements and Comedies in Late Georgian England -- 1 Advertising the lottery with lottery comedies -- 2 Advertising the lottery with non-lottery comedies -- 3 Conclusion: generating fictions out of fictions -- Bibliography -- Anne Beate Maurseth -- Jackpot! Turning the Lottery Fantasy into a Societal Critique - Le Gros lot by Hector Chaussier -- 1 Easy-going and light-hearted at the Palace of Equality -- 2 The sudden event - out of the blue -- 3 Chance effects or causal chain of events? -- 4 Jackpot and the lures of consumption -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Paul Goring -- The Lottery in British Prose Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century -- 1 Early fiction, satire, and the metaphor for marriage -- 2 Magazines and miscellanies -- 3 Edal Village: Or, The Fortunate Lottery Ticket (1781) -- 4 Anti-lottery prose fiction -- 5 Conclusion: the draw of the draw -- Bibliography -- Inga Henriette Undheim -- Lottery Dreams in Dano-Norwegian Skilling Ballads -- 1 Lottery ballads -- 2 The ballads featured in this chapter -- 3 Lottery dreams -- 4 Imagined winners -- 5 Fatal winners -- 6 Dreams go up in smoke -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Marius Warholm Haugen. "Plus de loterie!" - Cultural Responses to the Abolition of the French State Lottery -- 1 The lottery fantasy as consolation for the poor -- 2 Imagining histories of the lottery -- 3 A world disappearing: the lottery and the fallen dowager -- 4 Lottery, reverie, poetry -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Name Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996691917303316 |
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Kristiansen Johanne Slettvoll
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| Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2025 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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The Perversity of Things : Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction / / Hugo Gernsback ; edited by Grant Wythoff
| The Perversity of Things : Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction / / Hugo Gernsback ; edited by Grant Wythoff |
| Autore | Gernsback Hugo <1884-1967, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | University of Minnesota Press, 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (377 pages) |
| Disciplina | 813.0876209 |
| Collana | Electronic mediations |
| Soggetto topico |
SCIENCE / History
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: Thematic Contents -- Preface: How to Use This Book -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Tinkering -- A New Interrupter (1905) -- The Dynamophone (1908) -- The Born and the Mechanical Inventor (1911) -- The Radioson Detector (1914) -- What to Invent (1916) -- The Perversity of Things (1916) -- Thomas A. Edison Speaks to You (1919) -- Human Progress (1922) -- Results of the $500.00 Prize Contest: Who Will Save the Radio Amateur? (1923) -- The Isolator (1925) -- The Detectorium (1926) -- New Radio "Things" Wanted (1927) -- Part II. History and Theory of Media -- The Aerophone Number (1908) -- Why "Radio Amateur News" is Here (1919) -- Science and Invention (1920) -- Learn and Work While You Sleep (1921) -- The "New" Science and Invention (1923) -- Are We Intelligent? (1923) -- Part III. Broadcast Regulation -- The Wireless Joker (1908) -- The Wireless Association of America (1909) -- The Roberts Wireless Bill (1910) -- The Alexander Wireless Bill (1912) -- Wireless and the Amateur: A Retrospect (1913) -- The Future of Radio (1919) -- Sayville (1915) -- War and the Radio Amateur (1917) -- Silencing America's Wireless (1917) -- Amateur Radio Restored (1919) -- Wired Versus Space Radio (1927) -- Part IV. Wireless -- [Editorials] (1909) -- From The Wireless Telephone (1911) -- A Treatise on Wireless Telegraphy (1913) -- The Future of Wireless (1916) -- From Radio for All (1922) -- Radio Broadcasting (1922) -- Is Radio at a Standstill? (1926) -- Edison and Radio (1926) -- Why the Radio Set Builder (1927) -- Radio Enters a New Phase (1927) -- The Short-Wave Era (1928) -- Part V. Television -- Television and the Telephot (1909) -- A Radio-Controlled Television Plane (1924) -- After Television---What? (1927) -- Television Technique (1931) -- Part VI. Sound -- Hearing Through Your Teeth (1916) -- Grand Opera by Wireless (1919) -- The Physiophone: Music for the Deaf (1920) -- The "Pianorad" (1926) -- Part VII. Scientifiction -- Signaling to Mars (1909) -- Our Cover (1913) -- Phoney Patent Offizz: Bookworm's Nurse (1915) -- Imagination Versus Fact (1916) -- Interplanetarian Wireless (1920) -- An American Jules Verne (1920) -- 10,000 Years Hence (1922) -- Predicting Future Inventions (1923) -- The Dark Age of Science (1925) -- A New Sort of Magazine (1926) -- The Lure of Scientifiction (1926) -- Fiction Versus Facts (1926) -- Editorially Speaking (1926) -- Imagination and Reality (1926) -- How to Write "Science" Stories (1930) -- Science Fiction vs. Science Faction (1930) -- Wonders of the Machine Age (1931) -- Reasonableness in Science Fiction (1932) -- Part VIII. Selected Fiction -- Ralph 124C 41+, part 3 (1911) -- The Scientific Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, part 5: "Munchhausen Departs for the Planet Mars" (1915) -- The Magnetic Storm (1918) -- The Electric Duel (1927) -- The Killing Flash (1929) -- Notes -- Index -- Chronological Contents -- Preface: How to Use This Book -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A New Interrupter (1905) -- The Dynamophone (1908) -- The Aerophone Number (1908) -- The Wireless Joker (1908) -- The Wireless Association of America (1909) -- [Editorials] (1909) -- Signaling to Mars (1909) -- Television and the Telephot (1909) -- The Roberts Wireless Bill (1910) -- From The Wireless Telephone (1911) -- The Born and the Mechanical Inventor (1911) -- Ralph 124C 41+, part 3 (1911) -- The Alexander Wireless Bill (1912) -- Wireless and the Amateur: A Retrospect (1913) -- Our Cover (1913) -- A Treatise on Wir. |
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Gernsback Hugo <1884-1967, >
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| University of Minnesota Press, 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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