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The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
Winner:Locus Awards -Nonfiction (1999)
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.
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Free Press
- Publish Date: Jul 1st, 2000
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 0.80in - 0.80lb
- EAN: 9780684859781
- Categories: • Science Fiction & Fantasy• Science Fiction - General• General
About the Author
Thomas M. Disch is the author of such classic works of science fiction as Camp Concentration, 334, The Brave Little Toaster, and On Wings of Song, all of which are cited in David Pringle's Science Fiction: 100 Best Novels. His criticism has appeared in the country's leading magazines and newspapers. His book The Castle of Indolence was a nominee for the National Book Critic Circle's Award in Criticism.
Praise for this book
Alexander Star The New York Times Disch is an eloquent storyteller and polemicist....[His] book is consistently rewarding.
Frank McConnell San Jose Mercury News Brilliant....It's a wonderful book, and no one who cares about science fiction, or about American culture, should miss reading it.
George Feeley The Washington Post Witty, urbane and generous....Thomas M. Disch has got it right.
Robert Silverberg The Wall Street Journal Mr. Disch's lively and provocative new book is a science-fiction insider's brilliant attempt to come to terms with the bizarre morphing of our civilization in the past fifty years into something that might well have leaped out of the archetypical tales of yesterday's SF masters.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt The New York Times Provocative.
Dick Allen The Hudson Review Entertaining and provocative....Long overdue -- a pioneering look at what other cultural observers have ignored....Disch convinces us that any cultural study of our century which does not deal seriously with the genre is or will be fatally flawed.
Robert Sheckley San Francisco Chronicle Sharp, provocative....More than just a history, Disch gives us a sense of the events and moods that are so much a part of science-fiction....[Disch] has covered the vital aspects of the field in a highly readable book.
Michael Jacobs USA Today Fascinating.
Alyssa Katz Newsday [Disch speaks] for the entire genre with admirable authority and grace.
Robert Taylor The Boston Globe A provocative and enjoyable book.