Storm warnings: science fiction confronts the future
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Veröffentlicht: Carbondale, Ill. Southern Illinois University Press ©1987
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-264) and index
Introduction - Science fiction confronts the future - George E. Slusser, Colin Greenland, and Eric S. Rabkin -- - pt. 1 - Originating the future - Storm warnings and dead zones: imagination and the future - George E. Slusser -- - Origins of futuristic fiction: Felix Bodin's Novel of the future - Paul Alkon -- - Anticipating the past: the time riddle in science fiction - Marie-Hélène Huet -- - The thing of shapes to come: science fiction as anatomy of the future - Howard V. Hendrix -- - Knowing the unknown: Heinlein, Lem, and the future - Bradford Lyau -- - Reactionary Utopias - Gregory Benford -- - Media, message, and myths: three fictionists for the near future - José Manuel Mota -- - pt. 2 - Orwell: an interim report - Coming up on 1984 - Frederik Pohl -- - O'Brien's interim report - George Hay -- - Images of Nineteen eighty-four: fiction and prediction - Colin Greenland -- - Orwell and the uses of the future - John Huntington -- - One man's tomorrow in another's today: the reader's world and its impact on Nineteen eighty-four - Elizabeth Maslen -- - Big brother antichrist: Orwell, apocalypse, and overpopulation - W.M.S. Russell and Claire Russell -- - Variations on newspeak: the open question of Nineteen eighty-four - T.A. Shippey -- - pt. 3 - Alienation, prognostication, and apocalypse - Aliens for the alienated - Kenneth V. Bailey -- - News versus fiction: reflections on prognostication - Gary Kern -- - Boring dates: reflections on the apocalypse game - Frank McConnell
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ISBN:0585186510
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