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Cosmic engineers : a study of hard science fiction
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Cosmic engineers : a study of hard science fiction

Author: Gary Westfahl
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
Series: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 67
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gary Westfahl
ISBN: 0313297274 9780313297274
OCLC Number: 32550316
Description: xii, 148 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: "Science fiction vs. science faction" : early efforts to define scientific science fiction -- "The closely reasoned technological story" : the development of the idea of hard science fiction -- "Treating the whole thing as a game" : hard science fiction as seen by its writers -- "The best 'hard' science fiction of its day" : an inquiry into the origins of hard science fiction -- "He was part of mankind" : Arthur C. Clarke's A fall of moondust -- "Like something living" : Hal Clement's Mission of gravity -- "Gazing out at infinity" : Charles Sheffield's Between the strokes of night.
Series Title: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 67
Responsibility: Gary Westfahl.

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