Science Fiction: The Literature of the Technological Imagination

by Eric Rabkin

Cassette Audiobook , 1999

Status

Available

Collections

Publication

The Great Courses (1999), 6 hours, 8 lectures

Language

Original language

English

ISBN

1565850645 / 9781565850644

Local notes

[1] Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and the emergence of science fiction [2] Jules Verne and the popular passion for science [3] H.G. Wells and science fiction parables of social criticism [4] Pulp culture, World War II, and the ascendancy of American science fiction [5] And the winner is ... Robert A. Heinlein [6] Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. LeGuin, and the expansion of science fiction [7] Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the modern science fiction film [8] New wave, cyberpunk, and our science fiction world

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