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Author Seed, David

Title American Science Fiction and the Cold War : Literature and Film
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I Postwar Jeremiads: Philip Wylie and Leo Szilard; II Variations on a Patriotic Theme: Robert A. Heinlein; III History and Apocalypse in Poul Anderson; IV Views from the Hearth; V Cultures of Surveillance; VI Take-Over Bids; Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth; VII The Russians Have Come; VIII Embodying the Arms Race: Bernard Wolfe's Limbo; IX The Cold War Computerised; X Conspiracy Narratives; XI Absurdist Visions: Dr. Strangelove in Context
XII The Signs of War: Walter M. Miller and Russell HobanXIII In the Aftermath; XIV The Star Wars Debate; Bibliography; Index
Summary First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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Subject Science fiction, American -- History and criticism
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Science fiction films -- History and criticism
Cold War in literature.
Cold War.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American fiction
Cold War (1945-1989) in literature
Science fiction, American
Science fiction films
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135953829
1135953821