Rumors of War and Infernal Machines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rumors of War and Infernal Machines write by Charles E. Gannon. This book was released on 2005. Rumors of War and Infernal Machines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This provocative and unique work reveals the remarkably influential role of futuristic literature on contemporary political power in America. Tracing this phenomenon from its roots in Victorian Britain, Rumors of War and Infernal Machines offers a fascinating exploration of how fictional speculations on emergent or imaginary military technologies profoundly influence the political agendas and actions of modern superpower states. Gannon convincingly demonstrates that military fiction anticipated and even influenced the evolution of the tank, the development of the airplane, and also the bitter political battles within Britain's War Office and the Admiralty. In the United States, future-fictions and Cold-War thrillers were an officially acknowledged factor in the Pentagon's research and development agendas, and often gave rise_and shape_to the nation's strategic development of technologies as diverse as automation, atomic weaponry, aerospace vehicles, and the Strategic Defense Initiative ('Star Wars'). His book reveals a striking relationship between the increasing political influence of speculative military fiction and the parallel rise of superpower states and their technocentric ideologies. With its detailed political, historical, and literary analysis of U.S. and British fascination with hi-tech warfare, this lively and revealing study will appeal to students, literary and cultural scholars, military and history enthusiasts, and general readers.
Future Wars
Future Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Future Wars write by David Seed. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Future Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This timely book investigates fiction that speculates about wars likely to break out in the near or distant future. Ranging widely across periods and conflicts real and imagined, Future Wars explores the interplay between politics, literature, science fiction, and war in a range of classic texts. Individual essays look at Reagan's infamous “Star Wars” project, nuclear fiction, Martian invasion, and the Pax Americana. The use of future war scenarios in military planning dates back to the nineteenth century, and Future Wars concludes with a US Army officer's assessment of the continuing usefulness of future wars fiction.
The History of the Science-fiction Magazine
The History of the Science-fiction Magazine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of the Science-fiction Magazine write by Michael Ashley. This book was released on 2000. The History of the Science-fiction Magazine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The second of three volumes, this book takes up the story to reveal a turbulent period that was to witness the extraordinary rise and fall and rise again of science. Mike Ashley charts the SF book years in the wake of the nuclear age that was to see the golden age of science fiction.
Shadows of the New Sun
Shadows of the New Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shadows of the New Sun write by Peter Wright. This book was released on 2007. Shadows of the New Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of interviews and essays places under one cover an amazing selection of difficult-to-find resources for the avid Gene Wolfe reader and scholar. The essays concern the nature of writing, including character, structure and the profession of the writer. Also included are a series of interviews with Wolfe and the holy grail of 'New Sun' aficionados: Books in the Book of the New Sun, previously only available in a rare small-press volume.
Science Fiction and Empire
Science Fiction and Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science Fiction and Empire write by Patricia Kerslake. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Science Fiction and Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From its beginnings, science fiction has experimented with imperialistic scenarios of alien invasion, extraterrestrial exploitation, xenophobia, and colonial conquest. In Science Fiction and Empire, Patricia Kerslake brings contemporary thinking about postcolonialism and imperialism to bear on a variety of classic sci-fi novels and films, including The War of the Worlds, Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris, and Star Wars. The first book to identify the consequences of empire in science fiction, Kerslake’s study is a compelling investigation of the political ramifications of how we imagine our future. “Science Fiction and Empire is thought-provoking and insightful, . . . the kind of large-scale postcolonial work that science fiction has needed for quite some time.”—Science Fiction Studies
