Visions of Mars
Subtitle: essays on the red planet in fiction and science
By: edited by Howard V. Hendrix, George Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780786459148
Subjects: Science fiction; In literature; Exploration; History and criticism
Description: "These 17 essays explore the study of Mars. 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 influenced science; the extent of life in the solar system; and the presence of Mars in the work of popular writers" --Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Approaching Mars. Mars of science, Mars of dreams / Joseph D. Miller; title: Where is Verne's Mars? / Terry Harpold; title: Rosny's Mars / George Slusser; title: The uses of Mars. Dibs on the Red Star: the Bolsheviks and Mars in the Russian literature of the early twentieth century / Ekaterina Yudina; title: The Martians among us: Wells and the Strugatskys / George Slusser; title: Savagery on Mars: representations of the primitive in Brackett and Burroughs / Dianne Newell and Victoria Lamont; title: The (in)significance of Mars in the 1930s / John W. Huntington; title: Spawn of "Micromégas": views of Mars in 1950s France / Bradford Lyau; title: Is Mars heaven? The Martian chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 and Ray Bradbury's landscape of longing / Eric S. Rabkin; title: Re-presenting Mars: Bradbury's Martian stories in media adaptation / Phil Nichols; title: Robert A. Heinlein and the Red Planet / David Clayton; title: Business as usual: Philip K. Dick's Mars / Jorge Martins Rosa; title: Kim Stanley Robinson: Icehenge to Blue Mars / Christopher Palmer; title: Martian musings and the miraculous conjunction / Kim Stanley Robinson; title: Chronicling Martians / Sha LaBare; title: Science and fictional Mars. Mars as cultural mirror: Martian fictions in the early space age / Robert Crossley; title: Beyond Goldilocks and Matthew Arnold: interplanetary triage, extremophilia, and the outer limits of life in the inner solar system / Howard V. Hendrix.