Rumors of war and infernal machines : technomilitary agenda-setting in American and British speculative fiction /

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Author / Creator:Gannon, Charles E.
Edition:1st Rowman & Littefield ed.
Imprint:Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littefield Publishers, 2005.
Description:311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5716329
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ISBN:0742540340 (alk. paper)
0742540359 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Originally published: Liverpool University Press, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-291) and index.

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505 0 0 |t Introduction : assessing rumors - of war and infernal machines --  |g 1.  |t Armageddon by gaslight : Victorian visions of apocalypse --  |g 2.  |t Opportunistic anticipations and accidental insights : William Le Queux's exploitation of Edwardian invasion anxieties --  |g 3.  |t Promoters of the probable, prophets of the possible : technological innovation and Edwardian near-future war fiction --  |g 4.  |t H. G. Wells : the far-future war prophet of Edwardian England --  |g 5.  |t Hard numbers, hard cases, hard decisions : politics and future-war fiction in America --  |g 6.  |t An imperfect future tense (d) : anticipations of atomic annihilation in post-war American science fiction --  |g 7.  |t Nuclear fiction and silo psychosis : narratives of life in the shadow of a mushroom cloud --  |g 8.  |t Radio waves, death rays, and transgressive (sub)texts : future-war fiction in the wide black yonder --  |g 9.  |t Making man-machines of mass destruction : future-war authors as seers in an age of cyborg soldiers --  |g 10.  |t Cultural casualties as collateral damage : the fragment-ing/-ation effects of future-war fantasies vs. fictions --  |t Afterword : on conducting a literary reconnaissance in force - and in earnest. 
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