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How Science Fiction Conquered the World

by Thomas M. Disch (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art form best adapted to telling the lies we like to hear and to pretend we believe.

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  1. Thomas M. Disch (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Free Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0684824051
Page Count: 256

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  • Library of Congress: PN3433.5 .D57 1998
  • Dewey: 809.38762

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