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Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West
Carl Abbott
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Description for Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West
Hardcover. Will the settlement of Mars prove much different from the settlement of the West? This study shows us how the ways we remember the past greatly influence our ability to imagine multiple futures - in distant universes that appear very strange and yet utterly familiar. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 176 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
Will the settlement of Mars prove much different from the settlement of the West? Look to science fiction master Kim Stanley Robinson for fascinating ideas; then turn to historian Carl Abbott for further insights. Over the last half-century, science fiction has witnessed increasing complexity in its treatments of future homesteading, community building, mining, and other themes familiar to western historians. Considering these common threads, this is the first book to explore the ways that science fiction writers have drawn directly on narratives of the American West to frame their visions of the future. Abbott offers a fruitful new way to ... Read more
Will the settlement of Mars prove much different from the settlement of the West? Look to science fiction master Kim Stanley Robinson for fascinating ideas; then turn to historian Carl Abbott for further insights. Over the last half-century, science fiction has witnessed increasing complexity in its treatments of future homesteading, community building, mining, and other themes familiar to western historians. Considering these common threads, this is the first book to explore the ways that science fiction writers have drawn directly on narratives of the American West to frame their visions of the future. Abbott offers a fruitful new way to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700614301
SKU
V9780700614301
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Ref
99-22
About Carl Abbott
Carl Abbott is professor of urban studies and planning at Portland State University and an avid science fiction reader since his youth. Among his other books are The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities and The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West.
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