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245 00 a| Classical traditions in science fiction /c| edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens.;

264 1 a| Oxford ;a| New York :b| Oxford University Press,c| [2015];

300 a| xiii, 380 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

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490 1 a| Classical presences;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-370) and index.;

505 0 a| Science fiction's rosy-fingered dawn. The lunar setting of Johannes Kepler's Somnium, science fiction's missing link / Dean Swinford -- Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Jesse Weiner -- Virgil in Jules Verne's Journey to the center of the earth / Benjamin Eldon Stevens -- Mr. Lucian in suburbia: links between the true history and the first men in the moon / Antony Keen -- Science fiction 'classics'. A complex Oedipus: the tragedy of Edward Morbius / Gregory S. Bucher -- Walter M. Miller, jr.'s A canticle for Leibowitz, The great year, and The ages of man / Erik Grayson -- Time and self-referentiality in The Iliad and Frank Herbert's Dune / Joel Christensen -- Disability as rhetorical trope in classical myth and Blade runner / Rebecca Raphael -- Classics in space. Moral and mortal in Star trek: the original series / George Kovacs -- Hybrids and homecomings in The odyssey and alien resurrection / Brett M. Rogers -- Classical antiquity and western identity in Battlestar Galactica / Vincent Tomasso -- Ancient classics for a future generation? Revised Iliadic epiphanies in Dan Simmons' Ilium / Gaël Grobéty -- Refiguring the Roman Empire in The hunger games trilogy / Marian Makins -- Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and the end of antiquity / W. Marshall.;

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650 0 a| Science fiction filmsx| History and criticism.=| ^A63945;

650 0 a| Science fiction television programsx| History and criticism.=| ^A581494;

650 0 a| Civilization, Ancient, in literature.=| ^A191858;

650 0 a| Classical literaturex| Influence.=| ^A52065;

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700 1 a| Stevens, Benjamin Eldon,e| editor.=| ^A1179698;

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Classical traditions in science fiction / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens.

Other author	Rogers, Brett M., editor.
Other author	Stevens, Benjamin Eldon, editor.
Format	Book
Publication	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Copyright Date	©2015
Description	xiii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Science fiction, American--History and criticism. Science fiction, English--History and criticism. Science fiction films--History and criticism. Science fiction television programs--History and criticism. Civilization, Ancient, in literature. Classical literature--Influence. Civilization, Ancient--Influences.

Series	Classical presences Classical presences. ^A611052
Contents	Science fiction's rosy-fingered dawn. The lunar setting of Johannes Kepler's Somnium, science fiction's missing link / Dean Swinford -- Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Jesse Weiner -- Virgil in Jules Verne's Journey to the center of the earth / Benjamin Eldon Stevens -- Mr. Lucian in suburbia: links between the true history and the first men in the moon / Antony Keen -- Science fiction 'classics'. A complex Oedipus: the tragedy of Edward Morbius / Gregory S. Bucher -- Walter M. Miller, jr.'s A canticle for Leibowitz, The great year, and The ages of man / Erik Grayson -- Time and self-referentiality in The Iliad and Frank Herbert's Dune / Joel Christensen -- Disability as rhetorical trope in classical myth and Blade runner / Rebecca Raphael -- Classics in space. Moral and mortal in Star trek: the original series / George Kovacs -- Hybrids and homecomings in The odyssey and alien resurrection / Brett M. Rogers -- Classical antiquity and western identity in Battlestar Galactica / Vincent Tomasso -- Ancient classics for a future generation? Revised Iliadic epiphanies in Dan Simmons' Ilium / Gaël Grobéty -- Refiguring the Roman Empire in The hunger games trilogy / Marian Makins -- Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and the end of antiquity / W. Marshall.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-370) and index.
LCCN	2013036304
ISBN	9780199988419
ISBN	0199988412
ISBN	9780190228330 (paperback)
ISBN	0190228334 (paperback)

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