Some Science Fiction/Technology titles
The list below is a set of post-1994 titles that seem to me to have some
interesting possible connections to our examinations of American ideas
about Technology. I've looked at some of them, but most were discoveries
from an Annie search for 'science fiction', limited to books after 1994.
They might be interesting for their SUBJECT headings, if one had time to
pursue this digression further.
AUTHOR Dolan, Frederick Michael.
TITLE Allegories of America : narratives, metaphysics, politics /
IMPRINT Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1994.
SUBJECT Political culture -- United States.
Political science -- United States -- History.
Fiction -- Political aspects -- United States.
Politics and literature -- United States.
Allegory.
1 > Leyburn Library E169.1 .D65 1994 NOT CHK'D OUT
TITLE Anticipations : essays on early science fiction and its
precursors / edited by David Seed.
EDITION Syracuse University Press ed.
IMPRINT [Syracuse, N.Y.] : Syracuse University Press, 1995.
SERIES Utopianism and communitarianism.
SUBJECT Science fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Science fiction, French -- History and criticism.
Utopias in literature.
Voyages, Imaginary.
Literary form.
1 > Leyburn Library PR830.S35 A58 1995 NOT CHK'D OUT
AUTHOR Ben-Tov, S. (Sharona)
TITLE The artificial paradise : science fiction and American reality /
IMPRINT Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1995.
SERIES Studies in literature and science.
SUBJECT Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Literature and technology -- United States -- History -- 20th
century.
Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th
century.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
United States -- In literature.
Paradise in literature.
1 > Leyburn Library PS374.S35 B38 1995 NOT CHK'D OUT
AUTHOR Westfahl, Gary.
TITLE Cosmic engineers : a study of hard science fiction
IMPRINT Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
SUBJECT Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Literature and technology -- United States -- History -- 20th
century.
Literature and science -- United States -- History -- 20th
century.
Space sciences in literature.
Cosmology in literature.
1 > Leyburn Library PS374.S35 W43 1996 NOT CHK'D OUT
AUTHOR Disch, Thomas M.
TITLE The dreams our stuff is made of : how science fiction conquered
the world / Thomas M. Disch.
IMPRINT New York : Free Press, c1998.
SUBJECT Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Literature and society.
1 > Leyburn Library PN3433.5 .D57 1998 NOT CHK'D OUT
AUTHOR Booker, M. Keith.
TITLE The dystopian impulse in modern literature : fiction as social
criticism / M. Keith Booker.
IMPRINT Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
SUBJECT Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Dystopias in literature.
Utopias in literature.
Totalitarianism and literature.
Literature and society.
1 > Leyburn Library PN3503 .B619 1994 NOT CHK'D OUT
TITLE Future primitive : the new ecotopias / edited by Kim Stanley
Robinson.
IMPRINT New York : TOR, 1994.
SUBJECT Science fiction, American.
Wilderness areas -- Fiction.
1 > Leyburn Library PS648.S3 F897 1994 NOT CHK'D OUT
AUTHOR Landon, Brooks.
TITLE Science fiction after 1900 : from the Steam man to the stars /
IMPRINT New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall
International, c1997.
SUBJECT Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
1 > Leyburn Library PN3433.8 .L36 1997 NOT CHK'D OUT
AUTHOR Alkon, Paul K. (Paul Kent)
TITLE Science fiction before 1900 : imagination discovers technology /
IMPRINT New York : Twayne ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York
: Maxwell Macmillan International, c1994.
SUBJECT Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Fantastic fiction -- History and criticism.
Science fiction -- Bibliography.
Fantastic fiction -- Bibliography.
1 > Leyburn Library PN3433.5 .A45 1994 NOT CHK'D OUT
TITLE The science fiction century / edited by David G. Hartwell.
IMPRINT New York : Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1997.
SUBJECT Science fiction.
Fiction -- 20th century.
1 > Leyburn Library PN6120.95.S33 S355 1997 NOT CHK'D OUT
AUTHOR Nahin, Paul J.
TITLE Time machines : time travel in physics, metaphysics, and science
fiction / Paul J. Nahin ; foreword by Kip S. Thorne.
IMPRINT New York : AIP Press : Springer , c1999.
SUBJECT Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Science fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Time travel in literature.
Metaphysics in literature.
Physics in literature.
1 > Leyburn Library PS374.S35 N34 1999 NOT CHK'D OUT