Consciousness and Science Fiction, Broderick Damien

Автор: Broderick Damien
Название: Psience Fiction: The Paranormal in Science Fiction Literature
ISBN: 1476672288 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476672281
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Описание: Science fiction is often considered a literature of futuristic technology: fantastic warfare among the stars, or ruinous apocalypse on Earth. In the middle of last century, a very different theme suddenly blossomed. This was a fiction of mind powers such as telepathy, precognition of the future, teleportation, symbolic machines reacting to these mental forces and perhaps life beyond death. Driving this explosion of paranormal narratives was John W. Campbell, editor of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, later renamed Analog. Almost single-handedly, Campbell made “psience fiction” into a dominant movement.Until now, no scholarly study has dealt specifically with this abrupt shift of emphasis away from space travel, atomic weapons, robots, and other once-imaginary technologies, and into the realm of the paranormal treated as science. Literary critic Damien Broderick surveys this long-ignored terrain, reading a series of influential or characteristic psience fiction novels and short stories, from the 1930s to now. This tour of the psychic fictional landscape is framed by an informed discussion of the dynamics creating this surge of interest in parapsychology, and its absorption into the genre even as real-world military experiments in the paranormal (the US Star Gate program) were being conducted in highly classified secrecy.

Автор: Broderick Alison T.
Название: Marcy Mabel Mollie McMann
ISBN: 1948256150 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781948256155
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Marcy Mabel Mollie McMann is a rough and tough girl. She loves to get dirty, but hates to wash her hands. After coming down with a cold and a visit to the doctors office, she learns how important it is to wash those germs away.