Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 405 g
The Paranormal in Science Fiction Literature
Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 405 g
ISBN: 978-1-4766-7228-1
Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
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.