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1st edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxvi, 586 p. ; 20 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Introduction -- Land Ironclads/ H. G. Wells p. 1 -- Finis/ Frank L. Pollack p. 22 -- As Easy as ABC/ Rudyard Kipling p. 33 -- Metal Man/ Jack Williamson p. 59 -- Martian Odyssey/ Stanley G. Weinbaum p. 70 -- Night/ John W. Campbell, Jr. p. 95 -- Desertion/ Clifford D. Simak p. 115 -- Piper's Son/ Lewis Padgett p. 127 -- Monster/ A. E. van Vogt p. 154 -- Second Night of Summer/ James H. Schmitz p. 171 -- Second Dawn/ Arthur C. Clarke p. 198 -- Crucifixus Etiam/ Walter M. Miller, Jr. p. 228 -- Tunnel Under the World/ Frederik Pohl p. 247 -- Who Can Replace a Man?/ Brian Aldiss p. 278 -- Billennium/ J. G. Ballard p. 287 -- Ballad of Lost C'mell/ Cordwainer Smith p. 302 -- Semley's Necklace/ Ursula K. Le Guin p. 322 -- How Beautiful with Banners/ James Blish p. 340 -- Criminal Act/ Harry Harrison p. 350 -- Problems of Creativeness/ Thomas M. Disch p. 363 -- How the Whip Came Back/ Gene Wolfe p. 385 -- Cloak of Anarchy/ Larry Niven p. 400 -- Thing of Beauty/ Norman Spinrad p. 420 -- Screwfly Solution/ Raccoona Sheldon p. 435 -- Way of Cross and Dragon/ George R. R. Martin., p. 454 -- Swarm/ Bruce Sterling p. 472 -- Burning Chrome/ William Gibson p. 496 -- Silicon Muse/ Hilbert Schenck p. 516 -- Karl and the Ogre/ Paul J. McAuley p. 535 -- Piecework/ David Brin p. 550 -- Select Bibliography. p. 577 -- Sources. p. 583. Subjects; Anthology. Science fiction, English. Science fiction, American. 1 Kg.…

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1st edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxvi, 586 p. ; 20 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Introduction -- Land Ironclads/ H. G. Wells p. 1 -- Finis/ Frank L. Pollack p. 22 -- As Easy as ABC/ Rudyard Kipling p. 33 -- Metal Man/ Jack Williamson p. 59 -- Martian Odyssey/ Stanley G. Weinbaum p. 70 -- Night/ John W. Campbell, Jr. p. 95 -- Desertion/ Clifford D. Simak p. 115 -- Piper's Son/ Lewis Padgett p. 127 -- Monster/ A. E. van Vogt p. 154 -- Second Night of Summer/ James H. Schmitz p. 171 -- Second Dawn/ Arthur C. Clarke p. 198 -- Crucifixus Etiam/ Walter M. Miller, Jr. p. 228 -- Tunnel Under the World/ Frederik Pohl p. 247 -- Who Can Replace a Man?/ Brian Aldiss p. 278 -- Billennium/ J. G. Ballard p. 287 -- Ballad of Lost C'mell/ Cordwainer Smith p. 302 -- Semley's Necklace/ Ursula K. Le Guin p. 322 -- How Beautiful with Banners/ James Blish p. 340 -- Criminal Act/ Harry Harrison p. 350 -- Problems of Creativeness/ Thomas M. Disch p. 363 -- How the Whip Came Back/ Gene Wolfe p. 385 -- Cloak of Anarchy/ Larry Niven p. 400 -- Thing of Beauty/ Norman Spinrad p. 420 -- Screwfly Solution/ Raccoona Sheldon p. 435 -- Way of Cross and Dragon/ George R. R. Martin., p. 454 -- Swarm/ Bruce Sterling p. 472 -- Burning Chrome/ William Gibson p. 496 -- Silicon Muse/ Hilbert Schenck p. 516 -- Karl and the Ogre/ Paul J. McAuley p. 535 -- Piecework/ David Brin p. 550 -- Select Bibliography. p. 577 -- Sources. p. 583. Subjects; Anthology. Science fiction, English. Science fiction, American. 1 Kg.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Will novels and stories be relevant in the next millennium, when the boundaries between illusion and reality, and observer and observed, may dissipate in a whirl of images, signals and data This essay collection divines the prospects of fiction in the information age by examining cyberpunk literature. A movement less than a decade old, cyberpunk is driven by deep concerns about society, ethics, and new technology and has been defined as the literature of the first generation of science-fiction writers actually to live in a science-fiction world. These essays were first presented at the 1989 annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, the field's most prestigious international gathering. They address concerns common not only to cyberpunk and traditional science-fiction scholars, critics, and writers but to their counterparts outside the genre as well. Interdisciplinary in perspective, the essays consider the origins of cyberpunk, the appropriation of its conventions by the mass media, the literature's paradoxical retrogressive/iconoclastic nature, cyberpunk's affinities to and deviations from both traditional science fiction and postmodernist literature, the parameters and components of the cyberpunk canon, and the movement's future course. Some essays are theoretical, but all are grounded in works familiar to serious science-fiction readers: Neuromancer, Frontera, Deserted Cities of the Heart, Islands in the Net, Great Sky River, the Mirrorshades anthology, and others; cyberpunk TV and cinema like the Max Headroom programs, Blade Runner, and Tron; and precursory literature, including Frankenstein, Le Roman de l'avenir, Ralph I24C 41 +, and A Clockwork Orange. Useful for its views on a volatile science-fiction subgenre, Fiction 2000 is also valuable for what it tells us about the fate of mainstream literature.…

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Condition: New. pp. 616.

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Hardback. Condition: New. Essays on the continuing power and applicability of medieval images, with particular reference to recent films.The middle ages provide the material for mass-market films, for historical and fantasy fiction, for political propaganda and claims of legitimacy, and these in their turn exert a force well outside academia. The phenomenon is tooimportant to be left unscrutinised: these essays show the continuing power and applicability of medieval images - and also, it must be said, their dangerousness and often their falsity. Of the ten essays in this volume, several examine modern movies, including the highly-successful A Knight's Tale (Chaucer as a PR agent) and the much-derided First Knight (the Round Table fights the Gulf War). Others deal with the appropriation of history and literature by a variety of interested parties: King Alfred press-ganged for the Royal Navy and the burghers of Winchester in 1901, William Langland discovered as a prophet of future Socialism, Chaucer at once venerated and tidied into New England respectability. Vikings, Normans and Saxons are claimed as forebears and disowned as losers in works as complex as Rider Haggard's Eric Brighteyes, at once neo-saga and anti-saga. Victorian melodramaprovides the clichés of "the bad baronet" who revives the droit de seigneur (but baronets are notoriously modern creations); and of the "bony grasping hand" of the Catholic Church and its canon lawyers (an image spread in ways eerily reminiscent of the modern "urban legend" in its Internet forms). Contributors: BRUCE BRASINGTON, WILLIAM CALIN, CARL HAMMER, JONA HAMMER, PAUL HARDWICK, NICKOLAS HAYDOCK, GWENDOLYN MORGAN, JOANNE PARKER, CLARE A. SIMMONS, WILLIAM F. WOODS. Professor TOM SHIPPEY teaches in the Department of English at the University of St Louis; Dr MARTIN ARNOLD teaches at University College, Scarborough.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 257 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Condition: New. pp. 616.

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Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. xviii + 398.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. xviii + 398.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnTom Shippey taught at Oxford University at the same time as J.R.R. Tolkien and with the same syllabus, which gives him an intimate familiarity with the works that fueled Tolkien s imagination. He subsequently held the c.…