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Author Kilgore, De Witt Douglas.

Title Astrofuturism : science, race, and visions of utopia in space / De Witt Douglas Kilgore.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2003]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  813.0876 K48A    Check Shelf
Description 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: the wonderful dream -- Knocking on heaven's door: David Lasser and the first conquest of space -- An empire in space: Europe and America as science fact -- Building a space frontier: Robert A. Heinlein and the American tradition -- Will there always be an England? Arthur C. Clarke's new Eden -- The domestication of space: Gerard K. O'Neill's suburban diaspora -- Ben Bova: race, nation, and renewal on the high frontier -- On Mars and other heterotopias: a conclusion.
Subject Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Literature and science -- United States.
Life on other planets in literature.
Space and time in literature.
Astronautics in literature.
Utopias in literature.
Future, The, in literature.
Race in literature.
ISBN 0812237196 cloth alkaline paper
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0812218477 paperback alkaline paper
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