Thomas M. Disch «On SF»
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Описание: Cover by Jamie Spracher. Содержание:
PRUT ONE The Forest
The Embarrassments of Science Fiction 3 Ideas: A Popular Misconception 16 Mythology and Science Fiction 21 Big Ideas and Dead-End Thrills: The Further Embarrassments of Science Fiction 25 PRRT TUJO Forefathers Poe's Appalling Life 39 Luncheon in the Sepulcher: Poe in the Gothic Tradition 42 Brave New World Revisited Once Again 49 A Tableful of Twinkies 52 Sic, Sic, Sic 56 A Bus Trip to Heaven 59 The Doldrums of Space 61 Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) 65 Jokes across the Generation Gap 67 Time, Space, the Limitlessness of the Imagination—and Abs to Die for 72 PflRTTHREE The Bully Pulpit The King and His Minions: Thoughts of a Turilight Zone Reviewer Talking with Jesus 89 The Labor Day Group 97 1979: Fluff and Fizzles 105 The Feast of St. Bradbury 114 PARI FOUR Selected large r Trees A Different Different World 133 Crowley's Poetry 136 Wolfe's New Sun 141 The Champion of Cyberpunk: On Two Works by William Gibson Queen Victoria's Computers 147 Dick's First Novel 150 In the Mold of 1964: An Afterword 160 PHRT FIUE Crazy Neighbors The Village Alien 171 UFOs and the Origins of Christianity 184 Science Fiction as a Church 190 The Evidence of Things Not Seen 198 The Road to Heaven: Science Fiction and the Militarization of Space 205 Speaker Moonbeam: Newt's Futurist Brain Trust 213 A Closer Look at Close Encounters 220 Primal Hooting 223 PRUT SIX Offer the Future The Day of the Living Dead 235 The Fairy Tale Kingdom of Baghdad 238 SF: Guides to the Ghetto 242 Over the River and Through the Wood 245 Measures of Hanging 248 The Secret Code Language of Bright Kids 250 Double Talk, Double Dutch, Dutch Chocolate 252 Acknowledgments 261 Index 263
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