Visions of Mars
Essays on the Red Planet in Fiction and Science
Will be published approx. on 28. February 2011
Book
Hardback
222 pages
978-0-7864-5914-8 (ISBN)
Description
The planet Mars has always maintained a strong grip on the human imagination. These 17 wide-ranging essays explore the study of Mars through history and the ways in which Mars has figured in literature, the arts and popular culture. Topics covered include the role of scientific discovery in the development of science fiction as a genre and the ways in which science fiction and popular discourse have, in turn, influenced science; the extent of life in the solar system; and the presence of Mars in the work of popular writers such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-5914-8 (9780786459148)
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Persons
Howard V. Hendrix teaches English at California State University in Fresno. In addition to his editing and criticism work, Hendrix is the author of six science fiction novels. George Slusser is a professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside. The longtime curator of the famed Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, he also earned the Pilgrim Award for his numerous scholarly books. Award winning author Eric S. Rabkin is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of numerous books and publications.
Content
Table of Contents
Preface: Science, Fiction, and the Red Planet
GEORGE SLUSSER, HOWARD V. HENDRIX, ERIC S. RABKIN
Introduction: The Martian in the Mirror
HOWARD V. HENDRIX
One: Approaching Mars
Mars of Science, Mars of Dreams
JOSEPH D. MILLER
Where Is Verne's Mars?
TERRY HARPOLD
Rosny's Mars
GEORGE SLUSSER
Two: The Uses of Mars
Dibs on the Red Star: The Bolsheviks and Mars in the Russian Literature of the Early Twentieth Century
EKATERINA YUDINA
The Martians Among Us: Wells and the Strugatskys
GEORGE SLUSSER
Savagery on Mars: Representations of the Primitive in Brackett and Burroughs
DIANNE NEWELL AND VICTORIA LAMONT
The (In)Significance of Mars in the 1930s
JOHN W. HUNTINGTON
Spawn of "Micromégas": Views of Mars in 1950s France
BRADFORD LYAU
Is Mars Heaven? The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 and Ray Bradbury's Landscape of Longing
ERIC S. RABKIN
Re-Presenting Mars: Bradbury's Martian Stories in Media Adaptation
PHIL NICHOLS
Robert A. Heinlein and the Red Planet
DAVID CLAYTON
Business as Usual: Philip K. Dick's Mars
JORGE MARTINS ROSA
Kim Stanley Robinson: From Icehenge to Blue Mars
CHRISTOPHER PALMER
Martian Musings and the Miraculous Conjunction
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON
Chronicling Martians
SHA LABARE
Three: Science and Fictional Mars
Mars as Cultural Mirror: Martian Fictions in the Early Space
ROBERT CROSSLEY
Beyond Goldilocks and Matthew Arnold: Interplanetary Triage, Extremophilia, and the Outer Limits of Life in the Inner Solar System
HOWARD V. HENDRIX
Appendix 1-To Write the Dream in the Center of Science: Mars and the Science Fiction Heritage: A Dialogue Between Ray Bradbury and Frederik Pohl (George Slusser, Moderator) (May 2008)
Appendix 2-The Extreme Edge of Mars Today: A Panel Discussion with David Hartwell, Geoffrey Landis, Larry Niven, and Mary Turzillo, Moderator (May 2008)
About the Contributors
Index
Preface: Science, Fiction, and the Red Planet
GEORGE SLUSSER, HOWARD V. HENDRIX, ERIC S. RABKIN
Introduction: The Martian in the Mirror
HOWARD V. HENDRIX
One: Approaching Mars
Mars of Science, Mars of Dreams
JOSEPH D. MILLER
Where Is Verne's Mars?
TERRY HARPOLD
Rosny's Mars
GEORGE SLUSSER
Two: The Uses of Mars
Dibs on the Red Star: The Bolsheviks and Mars in the Russian Literature of the Early Twentieth Century
EKATERINA YUDINA
The Martians Among Us: Wells and the Strugatskys
GEORGE SLUSSER
Savagery on Mars: Representations of the Primitive in Brackett and Burroughs
DIANNE NEWELL AND VICTORIA LAMONT
The (In)Significance of Mars in the 1930s
JOHN W. HUNTINGTON
Spawn of "Micromégas": Views of Mars in 1950s France
BRADFORD LYAU
Is Mars Heaven? The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 and Ray Bradbury's Landscape of Longing
ERIC S. RABKIN
Re-Presenting Mars: Bradbury's Martian Stories in Media Adaptation
PHIL NICHOLS
Robert A. Heinlein and the Red Planet
DAVID CLAYTON
Business as Usual: Philip K. Dick's Mars
JORGE MARTINS ROSA
Kim Stanley Robinson: From Icehenge to Blue Mars
CHRISTOPHER PALMER
Martian Musings and the Miraculous Conjunction
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON
Chronicling Martians
SHA LABARE
Three: Science and Fictional Mars
Mars as Cultural Mirror: Martian Fictions in the Early Space
ROBERT CROSSLEY
Beyond Goldilocks and Matthew Arnold: Interplanetary Triage, Extremophilia, and the Outer Limits of Life in the Inner Solar System
HOWARD V. HENDRIX
Appendix 1-To Write the Dream in the Center of Science: Mars and the Science Fiction Heritage: A Dialogue Between Ray Bradbury and Frederik Pohl (George Slusser, Moderator) (May 2008)
Appendix 2-The Extreme Edge of Mars Today: A Panel Discussion with David Hartwell, Geoffrey Landis, Larry Niven, and Mary Turzillo, Moderator (May 2008)
About the Contributors
Index