Medieval science fiction
By: edited by Carl Kears & James Paz
Contributors: International Medieval Congress (2013 : Leeds, England)
Series: King's College London medieval studies -- XXIV; King's College London medieval studies -- 24.
Publisher: King's College London, Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780953983889
Subjects: Literature; Mittelalter; Fantasy fiction; History and criticism; Literatur; Science-Fiction; Medieval Literature; Fantastische Literatur; Science fiction; Congresses; Medieval Civilization; Medievalism in literature
Notes: Based on papers presented at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2013, and a round table held at the "Being Human" Arts & Humanities Festival, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medieval science fiction: An impossible fantasy? / Carl Kears & James Paz; title: Is "Beowulf" science fiction / Daniel Anlezark; title: The future is a foreign country: The legend of the seven sleepers and the Anglo-Saxon sense of the past / R.M. Liuzza; title: Untimely travel: Living and dying in Connie Willis's "Doomsday Book" / Patricia Clare Ingham; title: 'On second thought, let's not go to Camelot ... 'Tis a silly space': Star trek and the inconsequence of SF medievalism / Jeff Massey; title: "Those two green children which Nubrigensis speaks of in his time, that fell from heaven', or the Origins of science fiction / Mary Baine Campbell; title: Aliens and Anglo-Saxons in Edwin Morgan's "The first men on Mercury' / Dennis Ferhatovic; title: The riddle of medieval technology / Andy Sawyer; title: Dreams of war, dreams of dragon's fire: Conrad Kyeser's "Bellifortis" / Alison Harthill; title: Courtley love on Mars: E.R. Burroughs and the medieval lineage of planetary romance / Andrew Scheil; title: The medieval dying earth / James Paz; title: Catapunk: Toward a medieval aesthetic of science fiction / Minsoo Kang; title: Medieval cosmology and world building / Guy Consolmagno; title: Discovering "Eifelheim" / Michael F. Flynn.