The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of
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Thomas M. Disch
From one of science fiction's most acclaimed novelists comes this engrossing journey through the books, movies, and television programs that have shaped our perspective of both the present and the future. In an uncompromising, often irreverent survey of the genre from Edgar Allan Poe to Philip K. Dick to Star Trek, Thomas M. Disch analyzes science fiction's impact on technological innovation, fashion, lifestyle, military strategy, the media, and much more. An illuminating look at the art of science fiction (with a practitioner's insight into craft), as well as a work of pointed literary and cultural criticism, The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of reveals how this "pulp genre" has captured the popular imagination while transforming the physical and social world in which we live.
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Author
Thomas M. Disch
Pages
256
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2000-07-05
ISBN
0684859785 9780684859781
Ratings
Google: 3
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"I need to buy this and send it to Brent Spiner. It’s about how science fiction has shaped our technological advances. When I told him his iPad was like the tablets they used on Next Gen he rudely said, “You know it’s fiction, right?”"
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