The definitive collection of the twentieth century's most characteristic genre-from H.G. Wells's prophetic vision of technological warfare to contemporary cyberspace and up-to-the-minute myths of genetic engineering.
The definitive collection of the twentieth century's most characteristic genre-from H.G. Wells's prophetic vision of technological warfare to contemporary cyberspace and up-to-the-minute myths of genetic engineering.
Tom Shippey inherited J. R. R. Tolkien's Chair of Medieval English Language at the University of Leeds, where he taught the syllabus Tolkien had set up. He now holds the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at St Louis University, Missouri, specializing in Medieval Literature, Old English Arthurian and Romance Literature, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. He has written and edited numerous books, including J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (2001), The Road to Middle-earth (second edition, 1992), The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories (reissue, 2003), and Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative (co-edited with George Slusser, 1993).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction The Land Ironclads Finis As Easy as ABC The Metal Man A Martian Odyssey Night Desertion The Piper's Son The Monster The Second Night of Summer Second Dawn Crucifixus Etiam The Tunnel Under the World Who Can Replace a Man? Billennium The Ballard of Lost C'mell Semley's Necklace How Beautiful with Banners A Criminal Act Problems of Creativeness How the Whip Came Back Cloak of Anarchy A Thing of Beauty The Screwfly Solution The Way of Cross and Dragon Swarm Burning Chrome Silicon Muse Karl and the Ogre Piecework Select Bibliography Sources
Introduction The Land Ironclads Finis As Easy as ABC The Metal Man A Martian Odyssey Night Desertion The Piper's Son The Monster The Second Night of Summer Second Dawn Crucifixus Etiam The Tunnel Under the World Who Can Replace a Man? Billennium The Ballard of Lost C'mell Semley's Necklace How Beautiful with Banners A Criminal Act Problems of Creativeness How the Whip Came Back Cloak of Anarchy A Thing of Beauty The Screwfly Solution The Way of Cross and Dragon Swarm Burning Chrome Silicon Muse Karl and the Ogre Piecework Select Bibliography Sources
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