Worlds Enough and Time
Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Series: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Gary Westfahl, George Slusser, David Deiby
0-313-31706-2/978-0-313-31706-4
Description
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.
About the Author
GARY WESTFAHL teaches at University of California, Riverside. His previous books include
Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture: Coming of Age in Fantasyland
(2000),
Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction
(2000),
Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy
(2002), and
Unearthly Visions: Approaches to Science Fiction and Fantasy Art
(2002), all available from Greenwood Press.
GEORGE SLUSSER is Professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, Riverside. 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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