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SCIENCE FICTION QUOTATIONS: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits - Softcover

 
9780300108002: SCIENCE FICTION QUOTATIONS: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300108001 ISBN 13: 9780300108002
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Thousands of memorable quotations from the best science fiction works of all time

In this unprecedented collection of science fiction and fantasy quotations, the reader revisits the stunning moment when Mary Shelley's Frankenstein monster first comes to life; witnesses the transformation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde; is present when Bruce Wayne resolves to become Batman; and overhears the cosmic conclusions of The Incredible Shrinking Man. Drawing upon two centuries of the vast and provocative literature of science fiction and fantasy, this comprehensive book presents more than 2,900 quotations from wide-ranging sources, including science fiction and fantasy stories, novels, films, and television programs.

The quotations are organized by topic--alien worlds; darkness and light; robots, androids, and cyborgs; machines and technology; weapons; and more than one hundred others. The reader will encounter the wit and wisdom of renowned authors (H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin) along with definitive versions of such important statements as Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and Star Trek's Prime Directive.

With its thorough index, this book is both an invaluable resource for the writer or scholar and an irresistible page-turner for the curious browser.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gary Westfahl teaches at the University of California, Riverside. He has published extensively in the field of science fiction and in 2003 received the Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Award for lifetime contributions to science fiction and fantasy scholarship.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300108001
ISBN 13 
9780300108002
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
486
Herausgeber
Westfahl Gary
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