Full name: The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World

Author: Thomas M. Disch Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780684859781 0684859785

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. Similar books: Age of Wonders by David G. Hartwell The Jewel-Hinged Jaw by Samuel R. Delany The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction by Edward James New maps of hell by Kingsley Amis Billion Year Spree by Brian Aldiss Trillion Year Spree by Brian Aldiss The History of Science Fiction by Adam Roberts An Informal History of the Hugos by Jo Walton In search of wonder by Damon Knight In Other Worlds by A. A. Attanasio The Sky So Big And Black by John Barnes Harmony by Keith Brooke Ragamuffin by Tobias S. Buckell A Lion on Tharthee by Grant Callin Red Limit Freeway by John DeChancie