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In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as "this enormously ambitious posthumous volume," renowned scholar George Slusser offers a definitive version of the argument about the history of science fiction that he developed throughout his career: that several important ideas and texts, routinely overlooked in other critical studies, made significant contributions to the creation of modern science fiction as it developed into a truly global literature.
He explores how key thinkers like René Descartes, Benjamin Constant, Thomas DeQuincey, Guy du Maupassant, J.D.
Bernal, and Ralph Waldo Emerson influenced and are reflected in twentieth-century science fiction stories from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Poland, and Russia.
The conclusion begins with Slusser’s overview of global science fiction in the twenty-first century and discusses recent developments in countries like China, Romania, and Israel.
Hayles’s foreword provides a useful summation of the book’s contents, while science fiction writer Gregory Benford contributes an afterword providing a personal perspective on the life and thoughts of his longtime friend.
The book was edited by Slusser’s former colleague Gary Westfahl, a distinguished scholar in his own right.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:366 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:04/01/2022
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- ISBN:9781666905359
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:366 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:04/01/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781666905359
