David Seed
Born
in Nelson, The United Kingdom
November 26, 1946
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Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
13 editions
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2011
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A Companion to Science Fiction
6 editions
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2005
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The Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon
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American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film
8 editions
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1999
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Ray Bradbury
5 editions
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2014
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قرائتی نقادانه از رمان چهره مرد هنرمند در جوانی
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1992
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Brainwashing: The Fictions of Mind Control: A Study of Novels and Films Since World War II
3 editions
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2004
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Cinematic Fictions: The Impact of the Cinema on the American Novel up to World War II
2 editions
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2010
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Under the Shadow: The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives
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2012
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Anticipations: Essays on Early Science Fiction and Its Precursors
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1995
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“During the period between the wars, the term ‘alien’ became attached more and more to extraterrestrial beings, but we should remember that it had earlier roots in 19th-century race theory and politics. Hostility to aliens was institutionalized in the USA by the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and Anarchist Exclusion Act (1901). In this same period, quasi-humans on Mars – the favourite possibility at the turn of the 19th century – tended to be described in terms consistent with the racial hierarchy of the period. In Percy Greg’s Across the Zodiac (1880), short humans are discovered on Mars who have an Aryan appearance like Swedes or Germans. And Gustavus W. Pope, in his Journey to Mars (1894), conveniently colour-codes his own Martians into red, yellow, and blue races.”
― Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
― Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
“The first was a pair of linked stories by Philip Francis Nowlan from 1928–9 in which he introduced the character of Anthony Rogers, soon renamed Buck for the comic strip which followed. The composite volume Armageddon 2419 AD describes how our hero falls asleep at a point when the USA is the most powerful nation in the world and wakes in the 25th century to find his country in ruins, ruled by the ruthless Han. Nowlan’s tale is essentially a Yellow Peril story with futuristic weapons added. What follows is a struggle to restore freedom to the USA and the rest of the world, and to defeat once and for all ‘that monstrosity among the races of men’, the Chinese.”
― Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
― Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
“The urge to impose a single classification on SF ignores the generic hybridity of many novels: incorporation of the Gothic in The Island of Dr Moreau, of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in Forbidden Planet, and so on. The rise of film coincides with the emergence of science fiction. The relation between SF fiction and film has included an ongoing fascination with spectacle and extraordinary special effects like those pioneered in Georges Melies’s A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904).”
― Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
― Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
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