Palumbo Donald E. An Asimov Companion: Characters, Places and Terms in the Robot/Empire/Foundation Metaseries 9780786498239

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Автор: Palumbo Donald E.
Название: An Asimov Companion: Characters, Places and Terms in the Robot/Empire/Foundation Metaseries
ISBN: 9780786498239
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: художественная литература, романисты и прозаики

ISBN-10: 0786498234
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 196
Вес: 0.27 кг.
Дата издания: 30.04.2016
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 13
Читательская аудитория: General/trade
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: A prolific author, Isaac Asimov is most admired for his science fiction, including his collection of short stories I, Robot and his Robot, Empire and Foundation series novels. While each of these narratives takes place in a different fictional universe, Asimov asserted at the end of his career that he had, with his last Robot and Foundation novels, unified them into one coherent metaseries.The Encyclopedia Galactica, a compendium of all human knowledge, is prominent in the Foundation series as a key plot element but is also widely cited in the text itself. Palumbo and Sullivans major new reference work book contains 1,000 selected excerpts from the Encyclopedia, identifying and describing all of the characters, locales, artifacts, concepts and institutions in Asimovs metaseries. The authors argue that Asimov successfully integrates the three series through the retroactive use of chaos theory, the underlying principle behind both psychohistory and Three Laws of Robotics-respectively the crucial concepts in the Foundation and Robot stories.

An Asimov Companion: Characters, Places and Terms in the Robot/Empire/Foundation Metaseries, Palumbo Donald E.