An edition of Visions of Mars
(2011)
Visions of Mars
essays on the red planet in fiction and science
by Howard V. Hendrix
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"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.
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Visions of Mars: essays on the red planet in fiction and science
2011, McFarland
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Table of Contents
Approaching 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.
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