Science-fiction, the Early Years

Science-fiction, the Early Years
Author: Everett Franklin Bleiler
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 1032
Release: 1990
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780873384162

In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.

Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors

Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors
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Total Pages: 366
Release: 1889
Genre: English wit and humor
ISBN:

Includes parodies of Tennyson, Longfellow, Bret Harte, Thomas Hood, Swinburne, Browning, Shakespeare, Milton, Poe, Shelley, Cowper, Coleridge, Herrick, Carroll, Lever, Lover, Burns, Scott, Goldsmith, Kingsley, Byron and many others.

Robots in American Popular Culture

Robots in American Popular Culture
Author: Steve Carper
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2019-06-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1476635056

 They are invincible warriors of steel, silky-skinned enticers, stealers of jobs and lovable goofball sidekicks. Legions of robots and androids star in the dream factories of Hollywood and leer on pulp magazine covers, instantly recognizable icons of American popular culture. For two centuries, we have been told tales of encounters with creatures stronger, faster and smarter than ourselves, making us wonder who would win in a battle between machine and human. This book examines society's introduction to robots and androids such as Robby and Rosie, Elektro and Sparko, Data, WALL-E, C-3PO and the Terminator, particularly before and after World War II when the power of technology exploded. Learn how robots evolved with the times and then eventually caught up with and surpassed them.