Medieval Science Fiction

Herausgeber: Kears, Carl; Paz, James

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Essays looking at the idea of "science fiction" as it can be applied to medieval texts, and the synergies between the genres.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 870g
• ISBN-13: 9780953983889
• ISBN-10: 0953983889
• Artikelnr.: 44271768

Autorenporträt

Carl Kears, James Paz

Inhaltsangabe

Medieval Science Fiction: An Impossible Fantasy? Is Beowulf Science
Fiction? The Future is a Foreign Country: The Legend of the Seven Sleepers
and the Anglo-Saxon Sense of the Past Untimely Travel: Living and Dying in
Connie Willis's Doomsday Book "On Second Thought, Let's Not Go to
Camelot... `Tis a Silly Space": Star Trek and the Inconsequence of SF
Medievalism "Those two green children which Nubrigensis speaks of in his
time, that fell from heavem", or the Origins of Science Fiction Aliens and
Anglo-Saxons in Edwin Morgan's "The First Men on Mercury" The Riddle of
Medieval Technology Dreams of War, Dreams of Dragons' Fire: Conrad Kyeser's
Bellefortis Courtly Love on Mars: E.R. Burroughs and the Medieval Lineage
of Planetary Romance The Medieval Dying Earth Catapunk: Toward a Medieval
Aesthetic of Science Fiction Medieval Cosmology and World Building
Discovering Eifelheim