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" On SF / "
Thomas M. Disch
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BL
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706760
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b528949
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| Main Entry
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Disch, Thomas M
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| Title & Author
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On SF /\ Thomas M. Disch
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| Publication Statement
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Ann Arbor :: University of Michigan Press,, [2005]
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, ©2005
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271 pages ;; 25 cm
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0472068962 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0472098969 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780472068968 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780472098965 (cloth : alk. paper)
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| Notes
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Includes index
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| Contents
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pt. 1: The forest. The embarrassments of science fiction -- Ideas : a popular misconception -- Mythology and science fiction -- Big ideas and dead-end thrills : the further embarrassments of science fiction -- pt. 2: Forefathers. Poe's appalling life -- Luncheon in the sepulcher : Poe in the gothic tradition -- Brave New World revisited once again -- A tableful of Twinkies -- Sic, sic, sic -- A bus trip to Heaven -- The doldrums of space -- Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) -- Jokes across the generation gap -- Time, space, the limitlessness of the imagination, and abs to die for -- pt. 3: The bully pulpit. The king and his minions : thoughts of a Twilight Zone reviewer -- Talking with Jesus -- The Labor Day Group -- 1979 : fluff and fizzles -- The Feast of St. Bradbury -- pt. 4: Selected larger trees. A different different world -- Crowley's poetry -- Wolfe's new sun -- The champion of cyberpunk : on two works by William Gibson -- Queen Victoria's computers -- Dick's first novel -- In the mold of 1964 : an afterword -- pt. 5: Crazy neighbors. The village alien -- UFOs and the origins of Christianity -- Science fiction as a church -- The evidence of things not seen -- The road to Heaven : science fiction and the militarization of space -- Speaker Moonbeam : Newt's Futurist Brain Trust -- A closer look at Close Encounters -- Primal hooting -- pt. 6: After the future. The day of the living dead -- The fairy tale kingdom of Baghdad -- SF : guides to the ghetto -- Over the river and through the wood -- Measures of hanging -- The secret code language of bright kids -- Double talk, double Dutch, Dutch chocolate
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| Subject
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Science fiction-- Authorship
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Science fiction, American-- History and criticism
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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PS374.S35D57 2005
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