Description |
xi, 352 pages ; 24 cm. |
Series |
The Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series |
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Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-350). |
Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Science fiction in Latin America and Spain -- I. In the beginning The visionaries -- Distant Future (Mexico 1862) / Juan Nepomuceno Adorno -- On the Planet Mars (Spain, 1890) / Nilo Maria Fabra -- II. Speculating on a new genre SF From 1900 through the 1950s -- Mechanopolis (Spain, 1913) / Muguel de Unamuno -- Death Star (Chile, 1929) / Ernesto Silva Roman -- Baby H.P.(Mexico, 1952) / Juan Jose Arreola -- III. The First wave The 1960s to the mid-1980s -- Cosmonaut (Cuba, 1964) / Angel Arango -- Crystal goblet (Brazil, 1964) / Jeronimo Monteiro -- Cord made of nylon and gold(El Salvador, 1965) / Alvaro Menen Desleal -- Acronia (Argentina, 1966) / Pablo Capanna -- Last refuge (Argentina, 1967) / Eduardo Goligorsky -- Post-Boomboom (Argentina, 1967) / Alberto Vanasco -- Gu Ta Gutarrak(We and our own)(Argentina, 1968) / Magdalena Moujan Otano -- Future (Venezuala, 1970) / Luis Britto Garcia -- When Pilate said no (Chile, 1971) / Hugo Correa -- Falsifier (Peru, 1972) / Jose B. Adolph -- Violet's embryos (Argentina, 1973) / Angelica Gorodischer -- Brain transplant (Brazil, 1978) / Andre Carneiro -- Annunciation (Cuba, 1983) / Daina Chaviano -- Miscalulation (Mexico, 1983) / Federico Schaffler. |
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IV. Riding the crest The late 1980s into the new millennium -- Stuntmind (Brazil, 1989) / Braulio Tavares -- Reaching the shore (Mexico, 1994) / Guillermo Lavin -- First time (Spain, 1994) / Elia Barcelo -- Gray noise (Mexico, 1996) / Pepe Rojo -- Glimmerings on blue glass (Mexico, 1996) / Mauricio-Jose Schwarz -- Day we went through the transition (Spain, 1998) / Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero -- Exerion (Chile, 2000) / Pablo Castro -- Like the roses had to die (Cuba, 2001) / Michel Encinosa -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- About the contributors. |
Subject |
Science fiction, Latin American -- Translations into English.
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Latin American fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
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Science fiction, Spanish -- Translations into English.
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Spanish fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
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Added Author |
Bell, Andrea L., 1960-
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Molina-Gavilán, Yolanda.
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ISBN |
0819566330 hardback |
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0819566349 paperback |
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