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The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
Contributor(s): Disch, Thomas M. (Author)

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ISBN: 0684859785     ISBN-13: 9780684859781
Publisher: Free Press
OUR PRICE: $17.09  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2000
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Annotation: A popular insider offers a fascinating history of science fiction filled with provocative critiques, tidbits, and insights that reveal much about our cultural and literary history.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Fiction | Science Fiction - General
- Science
Dewey: 809.387
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" L (0.80 lbs) 272 pages
Features: Price on Product
Awards: Locus Awards, Winner, Nonfiction, 1999
Review Citations: New York Times 07/02/2000 pg. 20
 
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Publisher Description:
From one of science fiction's most acclaimed novelists comes this engrossing journey through the books, movies, and television programs that have shaped our perspective of both the present and the future. In an uncompromising, often irreverent survey of the genre from Edgar Allan Poe to Philip K. Dick to Star Trek, Thomas M. Disch analyzes science fiction's impact on technological innovation, fashion, lifestyle, military strategy, the media, and much more.
An illuminating look at the art of science fiction (with a practitioner's insight into craft), as well as a work of pointed literary and cultural criticism, The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of reveals how this pulp genre has captured the popular imagination while transforming the physical and social world in which we live
 
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