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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Martha A Bartter |
| ISBN: | 0313258929 9780313258923 |
| OCLC Number: | 17982356 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xii, 278 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | INTRODUCTION: THE SUPERMAN SYNDROME -- Why fiction? -- Why science fiction? -- The plan of the book -- Chronology: the Atomic Bomb -- PART I. THE WAY TO HIROSHIMA -- 1. INTERNATIONAL WATERS: BEFORE WORLD WAR I -- The "Lone Inventor" -- Wars to end War -- Creating scenarios -- Fictional tactics -- Further assumptions -- 2. "I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE": BEFORE WORLD WAR II -- A new genre -- Atoms for Fun and Profit -- Saving the world -- Losing the race -- Research gone wrong -- Repel the invaders -- Return to the wilderness -- Fictional tactics -- Assumptions -- 3. DARK WORDS OF WARNING -- Awful warnings -- Return to the wilderness II -- Down with the Tyrants -- Fictional tactics -- Assumptions -- 4. SCIENCE AND SCIENCE FICTION -- Images of the scientist -- Scientist amd science fiction -- The social institution of science -- Lived assumptions -- 5. A SCIENCE FICTION WORLD -- The bomb and boom -- Guilt and Glory -- Reactions -- Assumptions -- PART II: CIRCLING GROUND ZERO -- 6. THE NATURE OF "HUMAN NATURE" -- Models of human nature -- The problem of control -- The problem of war -- The problem of Language -- 7. THE HERO AND SOCIETY: STURGEON VERSUS HEINLEIN: -- The protagonist -- The society -- Before the bomb -- The bomb and after -- The contrasting vision -- Summary: stories by Robert A. Heinlein -- Stories by Theodore Sturgeon -- 8. HUMANS AND HISTORY -- War prevented -- War presented -- The postwar community -- Cycles of history -- Circling Ground Zero -- PART III: LEAVING GROUND ZERO -- 9. NEW ASSUMPTIONS. |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 33. |
| Responsibility: | Martha A. Bartter. |
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