George Slusser was professor of comparative literature and curator of the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, at the University of California, Riverside.
Gary Westfahl is professor emeritus at the University of La Verne.
18 Электронные книги Gary Westfahl
Westfahl Gary Westfahl: Science Fiction Quotations
In this unprecedented collection of science fiction and fantasy quotations, the reader revisits the stunning moment when Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein monster first comes to life; witnesses the transfo …
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€21.84
Westfahl Gary Westfahl: Science Fiction, Children’s Literature, and Popular Culture
In a constantly changing world, individuals are forever growing to meet the challenges and developments that emerge around them. In contemporary society, technology is at the heart of change. Literat …
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€80.99
Westfahl Gary Westfahl & Slusser George Slusser: Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy
Science fiction occupies a peculiar place in the academic study of literature. For decades, scholars have looked at science fiction with disdain and have criticized it for being inferior to other typ …
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€63.95
Leiby David A. Leiby & Westfahl Gary Westfahl: Worlds Enough and Time
With our lives firmly controlled by the steady pace of time, humans have yearned for ways to escape its constraints, and authors have responded with narratives about traveling far into the past or fu …
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€85.72
Westfahl Gary Westfahl: Day in a Working Life
Ideal for high school and college students studying history through the everyday lives of men and women, this book offers intriguing information about the jobs that people have held, from ancient tim …
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€317.09
Gary Westfahl: Arthur C. Clarke
Already renowned for his science fiction and scientific nonfiction, Arthur C. Clarke became the world’s most famous science fiction writer after the success of 2001: A Space Odyssey. He then produced …
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€19.20
Gary Westfahl: William Gibson
The leading figure in the development of cyberpunk, William Gibson (born in 1948) crafted works in which isolated humans explored near-future worlds of ubiquitous and intrusive computer technology an …
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€19.27
Westfahl Gary Westfahl: Spacesuit Film
Filmmakers employ various images to suggest the strangeness of outer space, but protective spacesuits most powerfully communicate its dangers and the frailty of humans beyond the cradle of Earth. (Ma …
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€115.32
Westfahl Gary Westfahl & Benford Gregory Benford: Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy
The 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 …
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€33.13
Ingrid E. Castro & Jessica Clark: Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction
Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children’s and youth’s agency with the popular culture genre of science fiction. As scholars in chi …
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€46.13
Westfahl Gary Westfahl: Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s
? By examining important aspects of science fiction in the twentieth century, this book explains how the genre evolved to its current state. Close critical attention is given to topics including the …
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€36.02
Westfahl Gary Westfahl & Kin Yuen Wong Kin Yuen: Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future
Science fiction has always challenged readers with depictions of the future. Can the genre actually provide glimpses of the world of tomorrow? This collection of fifteen international and interdiscip …
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€25.71
Westfahl Gary Westfahl & Benford Gregory Benford: Science Fiction and the Dismal Science
Despite the growing importance of economics in our lives, literary scholars have long been reluctant to consider economic issues as they examine key texts. This volume seeks to fill one of these cons …
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€46.40
Westfahl Gary Westfahl: Science Fiction Literature through History
This book provides students and other interested readers with a comprehensive survey of science fiction history and numerous essays addressing major science fiction topics, authors, works, and subgen …
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€197.23
George Slusser: Science Fiction
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 …
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€38.43
Westfahl Gary Westfahl: Day in a Working Life
Ideal for high school and college students studying history through the everyday lives of men and women, this book offers intriguing information about the jobs that people have held, from ancient tim …
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€318.46
Westfahl Gary Westfahl: Science Fiction Literature through History
This book provides students and other interested readers with a comprehensive survey of science fiction history and numerous essays addressing major science fiction topics, authors, works, and subgen …
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€196.78
