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Fighting the Future War: An Anthology of Science Fiction War Stories, 1914-1945 [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 432 pages, aukštis x plotis: 235x187 mm, weight: 960 g, 25 Halftones, black and white
  • Išleidimo metai: 12-Jul-2011
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415879507
  • ISBN-13: 9780415879507
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 432 pages, aukštis x plotis: 235x187 mm, weight: 960 g, 25 Halftones, black and white
  • Išleidimo metai: 12-Jul-2011
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  • ISBN-10: 0415879507
  • ISBN-13: 9780415879507
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The period between World War I and World War II was one of intense change. Everything was modernizing, including our technology for making war—witness machine guns, trench warfare, biological agents, and ultimately The Final Solution. This modernization and eye toward the future was reflected in many facets of pop culture, including fashion, home-wear design, and the popular literature of the time. In sci-fi, a specific genre emerged—that of the ‘future war.’

Fred Krome has collected many of these future war stories together for the first time in Fighting the Future War. Bolstered by a comprehensive introduction, and introduced with historical information about both the authors of the stories and the historical time period, these stories provide a view into the field of pulp science fiction writing, the issues that informed the time period between the world wars, and the way people envisioned the wars of tomorrow. Revealing anxieties about society, technology, race and politics, the genre of the future war story is important material for students of history and literature.

Recenzijos

'Kromes Fighting the Future War makes a valuable contribution to the history of science fiction as seen in its treatment of a particular scenario: the war story. Science-fiction fans and scholars will find it a convenient source for some interesting material that has hitherto not been reprinted.'- Stephen Curley, Journal of American Culture

'Frederick Kromes Fighting the Future War is a remarkable and useful anthology of American sf stories selected to support Clarkes thesisit richly renders that early pulp era without forced enthusiasms and without condescension or irony. I should think this would make a terrific teaching anthology.' - John Huntington, Science Fiction Studies

List of figures
ix
Acknowledgments x
Introduction l
PART ONE Hugo Gernsback and World War I
21(40)
1 "Imagination Versus Facts" (The Electrical Experimenter, April 1916)
29(2)
Hugo Gernsback
2 "Thetrench Destroyer" (The Electrical Experimenter, February 1917 )
31(3)
Hugo Gernsback
3 "Shooting With Electricity" (The Electrical Experimenter, June 1917)
34(4)
Hugo Gernsback
4 "Winning The War" (The Electrical Experimenter, May 1918)
38(2)
Hugo Gernsback
5 "Science And War" ( The Electrical Experimenter, June 1918)
40(2)
Hugo Gernsback
6 "Will The Germans Bombard Mew York?" (The Electrical Experimenter, July 1918)
42(5)
Hugo Gernsback
7 "The Magnetic Storm" (The Electrical Experimenter, August 1918)
47(14)
Hugo Gernsback
PART TWO The Future War Story during World War I
61(42)
8 "The Inventor Of Meltite" (London Magazine, 1916)
65(11)
C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne
9 "Omegon" (The Electrical Experimenter, September 1915)
76(9)
George Frederic Stratton
10 "The Gravitation Nullifier" (The Electrical Experimenter, October 1915)
85(9)
George Frederic Stratton
11 "Eddy Currents" (The Electrical Experimenter, May 1917)
94(9)
C.M. Adams
PART THREE The Inter-war Years and the Rise of the Airmen
103(110)
12 "Fiction Versus Facts" (Amazing Stories, July 1926)
112(2)
Hugo Gernsback
13 "Armageddon-2419 A. D." (Amazing Stories, August 1928)
114(46)
Philip Francis Nowlan
14 "The Bloodless War" (Air Wonder Stories, July 1929)
160(10)
David H. Keller
15 "Clouds Of Death" (Amazing Stories, June 1929)
170(6)
Louis Buswell
16 "The Rocket And The Next War" (Presidential Address, American Rocket Society, 1931)
176(8)
David Lasser
17 "The Revolt Of The Scientists" (Wonder Stories, April 1933)
184(29)
Nathan Schachner
PART FOUR The Ambivalence of Science: Technology and Armageddon
213(88)
18 "The Final War: Part 2" (Wonder Stories, April 1932)
221(36)
Carl W. Spohr
19 "Holocaust" (Astounding Stories, June 1931)
257(18)
Charles Willard Diffin
20 "World Gone Mad" (Amazing Stories, October 1935)
275(13)
Nat Schachner
21 "No Medals" (Astounding Stories, March 1935)
288(5)
Leigh Keith
22 "War In A Mechanistic Civilization" (Infantry Journal, July 1939)
293(8)
Major J. Halpin Connolly
PART FIVE After the Future War
301(66)
23 "After Armageddon" (Wonder Stories, September 1932)
305(11)
Francis Flagg
24 "There Shall Be Darkness" (Astounding Science Fiction, February 1942)
316(37)
C.L. Moore
25 "The Green Plague" (Astounding Stories, April 1934)
353(7)
Stanton A. Coblentz
26 "Rust" (Astounding Science Fiction, October 1939)
360(7)
Joseph E. Kelleam
PART SIX World War II
367(42)
27 "The Ice Plague" (Amazing Stories, October 1939)
371(13)
Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.
28 "D R Loudon's Armageddon" (Amazing Stories, September 1941)
384(6)
Alexander Blade
29 "Deadline" (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1944)
390(19)
Cleve Cartmill
Conclusion: Old Wine in New Bottles? 409(2)
Bibliography 411(4)
Index 415
Frederic Krome is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati, Clermont College.