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Laddar... Out of This World: Science Fiction but not as you know itav Mike Ashley
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This book was written to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the British Library in London, held between May and September in 2011. It includes illustrations of quite a few of the tastier items from the exhibition (as well as illustrations not included in the exhibition). It's written for literate readers who are quite media-savvy but who have up to now dismissed sf, so it doesn't over-rely on Golden Age pulp examples, although these are given an adequate (and, in my view) balanced crack of the whip. There are also plenty of references to non-English language works. It's more than just the recounting of a catalogue of works, or "We start with Lucien of Samosata and then go on to Mary Shelley and then to H.G.Wells and then to Hugo Gernsback..."; instead, the author explores themes and concerns of the times that works were written in and then examines how sf explores those themes. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
What if aliens were to attack the earth tomorrow? Or supposing we could bend time, could we meet ourselves in a parallel universe? Or what if machines began to think and feel? Science fiction begins by posing such questions of the unknown and imagining the future world to come. Sometimes its stories zero in on our fears of technology, while at other times they give us ideas and inspiration for innovations yet to come. Out of This World, which accompanies a major British Library exhibition on the scope and nature of science fiction, celebrates the long history and many achievements of science fiction. Organized into six sections--Alien Worlds, Time and Parallel Worlds, Future Worlds, Virtual Worlds, the End of the World, and Perfect Worlds--the book explores how science fiction has responded to the impact of science, technology, and socio-political change over time. From Mary Shelley to Margaret Atwood and J. G. Ballard, Out of This World reveals the glorious heritage and creativity of science fiction. It is illustrated throughout with examples of manuscripts, books, and magazines from some of the best science fiction artists in history, including Galileo's drawings from 1610 of the surface of the moon; twentieth-century magazines such as Amazing Stories, Analog, Space Travel, Astounding, Asimov's Science Fiction, Interzone, and Galaxy; book covers for such classic science fictions authors as Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock, William Gibson, Aldous Huxley, and Philip K. Dick; and film stills from iconic movies such as Iron Man, The Matrix, Metropolis, and Blade Runner. This accessible and visually inspiring book brings together a wealth of literary and artistic material to honor and explore this continually growing and rich genre of ideas and imagination. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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La table des matières propose les thèmes suivants :
Alien worlds : voyages extraordinaires, fly me to the Moon, the need to believe, forgotten visionaries, deep space, confronting the alien, colony and empire.
Time and parallel worlds : concept of time, travelling through time, alternate histories, steampunk, parallel worlds
Virtual worlds : worlds of the mind, virtual reality, what is reality ?
Future worlds : imagining the future, be prepared!, inventing the future, machine or human ?, the singularity, far future.
The end of the world : plague and pestilence, perils from space, extreme weather, nuclear war.
The perfect world : the first utopias, creating utopias, worlds apart, freedom or oppression ?, what is perfect ?
Le livre est adjoint d'une chronologie des oeuvres et d'informations complémentaires à glaner sur internet.
C'est une belle réussite faisant la part belle à la littérature mais pas seulement à la littérature anglo-saxonne, fort représentée par l'intérêt qu'elle porte à la science-fiction aujourd'hui. La littérature française est également très présente, plutôt pour des auteurs anciens et on voit combien la France a été pionnière dans ce domaine car la science-fiction, bien qu'elle ne portait pas ce nom, était une manière de regarder le monde et ses évolutions avec un universalisme que la pensée française a développée à travers le temps.
L'ouvrage est jonché de références littéraires qui donnent au lecteur amateur et averti de bons jalons pour ses futures lectures et accès à des heures de plaisir.
Sincèrement, j'ai très apprécié ce livre, qui plus est écrit dans un anglais très compréhensible pour la plupart des lecteurs. ( )