How great science fiction works /
"Robots, spaceships, futuristic megacities, planets orbiting distant stars. These icons of science fiction are now in our daily news. Science fiction, once maligned as mere pulp, has motivated cutting-edge scientific research, inspired new technologies, and changed how we view everyday life --...
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Chantilly, VA :
Great Courses/The Teaching Company,
[2016]
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| Series: | Great courses (Compact disc)
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Table of Contents:
- Lecture 1. Mary Shelley and the birth of science fiction
- Lecture 2. Science fiction in the 19th century
- Lecture 3. Science fiction treatments of history
- Lecture 4. Evolution and deep time in science fiction
- Lecture 5. Utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares
- Lecture 6. The rise of the science fiction pulps
- Lecture 7. The golden age of science fiction stories
- Lecture 8. The spaceship as a science fiction icon
- Lecture 9. The robot: from Čapek to Asimov
- Lecture 10. The golden age of the science fiction novel
- Lecture 11. From Mars to Arrakis: the planet
- Lecture 12. The science fiction wasteland
- Lecture 13. Invasions, space wars, and xenocide
- Lecture 14. Religion in science fiction
- Lecture 15. Science fiction's new wave
- Lecture 16. Encounters with the alien other
- Lecture 17. Environmentalism in science fiction
- Lecture 18. Gender questions and feminist science fiction
- Lecture 19. Cyberpunk and the 1980s
- Lecture 20. The 1990s: The new space opera
- Lecture 21. The artifact as a science fiction icon
- Lecture 22. Science fiction's urban landscapes
- Lecture 23. Science fiction in the 21st century
- Lecture 24. The future of science fiction.