Classical traditions in science fiction
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Classical traditions in science fiction
(Classical presences)
Oxford University Press, c2015
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Science fiction's rosy-fingered dawn. The lunar setting of Johannes Kepler's Somnium, science fiction's missing link / Dean Swinford
- Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Jesse Weiner
- Virgil in Jules Verne's Journey to the center of the earth / Benjamin Eldon Stevens
- Mr. Lucian in suburbia: links between the true history and the first men in the moon / Antony Keen
- Science fiction 'classics'. A complex Oedipus: the tragedy of Edward Morbius / Gregory S. Bucher
- Walter M. Miller, jr.'s A canticle for Leibowitz, The great year, and The ages of man / Erik Grayson
- Time and self-referentiality in The Iliad and Frank Herbert's Dune / Joel Christensen
- Disability as rhetorical trope in classical myth and Blade runner / Rebecca Raphael
- Classics in space. Moral and mortal in Star trek: the original series / George Kovacs
- Hybrids and homecomings in The odyssey and alien resurrection / Brett M. Rogers
- Classical antiquity and western identity in Battlestar Galactica / Vincent Tomasso
- Ancient classics for a future generation? Revised Iliadic epiphanies in Dan Simmons' Ilium / Gaël Grobéty
- Refiguring the Roman Empire in The hunger games trilogy / Marian Makins
- Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and the end of antiquity / C. W. Marshall