MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02831cam a2200313 a 4500
001 2010053294
003 DLC
005 20110721083818.0
008 101220s2011 ncu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a078645914X (illustrated case binding : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn664656875
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050 00 $aPN3433.6$b.V57 2011
082 00 $a809/.93329923$222
245 00 $aVisions of Mars :$bessays on the red planet in fiction and science /$cedited by Howard V. Hendrix, George Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin.
260 $aJefferson, N.C. :$bMcFarland,$cc2011.
300 $avi, 216 p. ;$c26 cm.
520 $a"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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aApproaching Mars. Mars of science, Mars of dreams / Joseph D. Miller -- Where is Verne's Mars? / Terry Harpold -- Rosny's Mars / George Slusser -- The uses of Mars. Dibs on the Red Star: the Bolsheviks and Mars in the Russian literature of the early twentieth century / Ekaterina Yudina -- The Martians among us: Wells and the Strugatskys / George Slusser -- Savagery on Mars: representations of the primitive in Brackett and Burroughs / Dianne Newell and Victoria Lamont -- The (in)significance of Mars in the 1930s / John W. Huntington -- Spawn of "Micromégas": views of Mars in 1950s France / Bradford Lyau -- Is Mars heaven? The Martian chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 and Ray Bradbury's landscape of longing / Eric S. Rabkin -- Re-presenting Mars: Bradbury's Martian stories in media adaptation / Phil Nichols -- Robert A. Heinlein and the Red Planet / David Clayton -- Business as usual: Philip K. Dick's Mars / Jorge Martins Rosa -- Kim Stanley Robinson: Icehenge to Blue Mars / Christopher Palmer -- Martian musings and the miraculous conjunction / Kim Stanley Robinson -- Chronicling Martians / Sha LaBare -- Science and fictional Mars. Mars as cultural mirror: Martian fictions in the early space age / Robert Crossley -- Beyond Goldilocks and Matthew Arnold: interplanetary triage, extremophilia, and the outer limits of life in the inner solar system / Howard V. Hendrix.
651 0 $aMars (Planet)$xIn literature.
650 0 $aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aMars (Planet)$xExploration.
700 1 $aHendrix, Howard V.,$d1959-
700 1 $aSlusser, George Edgar.
700 1 $aRabkin, Eric S.