Worlds Enough and Time: Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy by Westfahl, Gary

Worlds Enough and Time: Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313317064)

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Worlds Enough and Time: Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy by Westfahl, Gary

Worlds Enough and Time: Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy

$95.00
Worlds Enough and Time: Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy by Westfahl, Gary

Worlds Enough and Time: Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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With our lives firmly controlled by the steady pace of time, humans have yearned for ways to escape its constraints, and authors have responded with narratives about traveling far into the past or future, reversing the flow of time, or creating alternate universes where Napoleon was triumphant at Waterloo or the South won the Civil War. Writers ranging from Dante and Lewis Carroll to Philip K. Dick and Martin Amis have probed into the workings of time, and an overwhelming desire to master time reverberates throughout popular culture. This book considers how imaginative works involving time and time travel reflect ongoing scientific concerns and examine the human condition.

The scope of the volume is unusually wide, covering such topics as Dante, the major novels of the 19th century, and stories and films of the 1990s. The book concludes with a lengthy bibliography of short stories and novels, films and television programs, and nonfiction works that feature time travel or speculations about time. With a roster of contributors that includes several of the field's major scholars, this book offers many new insights into this fascinating subject.

Author: Gary Westfahl
ISBN-10: 0313317062
ISBN-13: 9780313317064
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2002
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.92h x 6.20w x 0.80d

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Choice 02/01/2003 pg. 969
By Gary Westfahl
By Gary Westfahl
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Gary Westfahl is adjunct professor at the University of La Verne, CA. His previous books include No Cure for the Future (2002), Unearthly Visions (2002), Worlds Enough and Time (2002), Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy (2002), Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture (2000), Space and Beyond (2000), and Cosmic Engineers (1996), all available from Greenwood Press.

George Slusser is professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside. He has written several books about science fiction authors and coedited numerous scholarly studies. He is the coeditor of Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy (2002), and Unearthly Visions: Approaches to Science Fiction and Fantasy Art (2002), both available from Greenwood Press.

David Leiby is an independent scholar.

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