Aelita, Or, The Decline of Mars
Author: graf Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Publisher: Ardis Publishers
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 184
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Aelita, Or, The Decline of Mars
Author: graf Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Publisher: Ardis Publishers
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
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Author: Alexei Tolstoi
Publisher:
Published: 2013-01
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781927504031
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Author: Alexei Tolstoy
Publisher:
Published: 2001-06-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781589633742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAelita is a science fiction fantasy in the manner of H.G. Wells, telling the story of a Soviet expedition to Mars with the aim of establishing communism. A Red Army officer foments a rebellion of the native Martians, who are in fact long-ago emigrants from Atlantis.
Reference Guide to Russian Literature
Author: Neil Cornwell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 1020
ISBN-13: 1134260776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.
Visions of Mars
Author: Howard V. Hendrix,
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2011-02-21
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0786484705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeventeen wide-ranging essays explore the evolving scientific understanding of Mars, and the relationship between that understanding and the role of Mars in literature, the arts and popular culture. Essays in the first section examine different approaches to Mars by scientists and writers Jules Verne and J.H. Rosny. Section Two covers the uses of Mars in early Bolshevik literature, Wells, Brackett, Burroughs, Bradbury, Heinlein, Dick and Robinson, among others. The third section looks at Mars as a cultural mirror in science fiction. Essayists include prominent writers (e.g., Kim Stanley Robinson), scientists and literary critics from many nations.
Imagining Mars
Author: Robert Crossley
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2011-01-03
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0819571059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMars in the human imagination from the invention of the telescope to the present For centuries, the planet Mars has captivated astronomers and inspired writers of all genres. Whether imagined as the symbol of the bloody god of war, the cradle of an alien species, or a possible new home for human civilization, our closest planetary neighbor has played a central role in how we think about ourselves in the universe. From Galileo to Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert Crossley traces the history of our fascination with the red planet as it has evolved in literature both fictional and scientific. Crossley focuses specifically on the interplay between scientific discovery and literary invention, exploring how writers throughout the ages have tried to assimilate or resist new planetary knowledge. Covering texts from the 1600s to the present, from the obscure to the classic, Crossley shows how writing about Mars has reflected the desires and social controversies of each era. This astute and elegant study is perfect for science fiction fans and readers of popular science.
NASA Technical Translation
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Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 942
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy
Author: Gregory Benford
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2018-02-20
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 147663193X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature--long held at the University of California, Riverside--have been a major influence in the study of science fiction and fantasy for thirty years. The conferences have attracted leading scholars whose papers are published in Eaton volumes found in university libraries throughout the world. This collection brings together 22 of the best papers--most with new afterwords by the authors--presented in chronological order to show how science fiction and fantasy criticism has evolved since 1979.
The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
Author: Istvan Csicsery-Ronay
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0819571520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis major critical work from one of the preeminent voices in science fiction scholarship reframes the genre as a way of understanding today’s world. As the application of technoscience increasingly transforms every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. Though the broad scope of science fiction may vary in artistic quality and sophistication, it shares a desire to imagine a collective future for the human species and the world. A strikingly high proportion of today’s films, commercial art, popular music, video games, and non-genre fiction are what Csicsery-Ronay calls “science fictional” —stimulating science-fictional habits of mind. We no longer treat science fiction as merely a genre-engine producing formulaic effects, but as a mode of awareness, which frames experiences as if they were aspects of science fiction. The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction describes science fiction as a constellation of seven diverse cognitive attractions that are particularly formative of science-fictionality. These are the “seven beauties” of the title: fictive neology, fictive novums, future history, imaginary science, the science-fictional sublime, the science-fictional grotesque, and the Technologiade, or the epic of technoscience’s development into a global regime.
