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Dying Planet
Mars in Science and the Imagination
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Artikel-Nr:
9780822336389
Veröffentl:
2005
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.08.2005
Seiten:
456
Autor:
Robert Markley
Gewicht:
644 g
Format:
233x164x27 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Robert Markley is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of a number of books, including Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660–1740. He is a coauthor of the DVD-ROM Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars and the editor of the book Virtual Realities and Their Discontents.
Analyzes scientific, literary, and popular works of the last century to offer a cross-disciplinary reading of Mars as both an object of scientific study and as a site on which humankind has projected its fears of ecological devastation
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. "A Situation in Many Respects Similar to Our Own": Mars and the Limits of Analogy 312. Lowell and the Canal Controversy: Mars at the Limits of Vision 613. "Different Beyond the Most Bizarre Imaginings of Nightmare": Mars in Science Fiction, 1880–1912 1154. Lichens on Mars: Planetary Science and the Limits of Knowledge 1505. Mars at the Limits of Imagination: The Dying Planet from Burroughs to Dick 1826. The Missions to Mars: Mariner, Viking, and the Reinvention of a World 2307. Transforming Mars, Transforming "Man": Science Fiction in the Space Age 2698. Mars at the Turn of a New Century 3039. Falling into Theory: Terraformation and Eco-Economics in Kim Stanley Robinson's Martian Trilogy 355Epilogue: 2005 385Notes 389Works Cited 405Index 435