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Worlds Enough and Time Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Gary Westfahl, George Slusser, David Deiby
ISBN: 0-313-31706-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31706-4
206 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2002
List Price: $95.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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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.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Quarries of Time by Gary Westfahl
    Time's Arrow
    Arrows and Riddles of Time: Scientific Models of Time Travel by George Slusser and Robert Heath
    Impossible Times: Some Temporal Labyrinths in Science Fiction by Richard Saint-Gelais
    The Jaws of the Intellect Grip the Flesh of Occurrence: Order in Time Travel by David Leiby
    "Backward, Turn Backward": Narratives of Reversed Time in Science Fiction by Andrew Sawyer
    Timescapes
    Beyond the Endtime Terminus: Allegories of Coalescence in Far-Future Science Fiction by Kirk Hampton and Carol MacKay
    Time and Some Mysteries of Mind by Susan Stratton
    Jews in Times: Alternate Histories and Futures in Space.... And Who Was that Bearded, Yarmulkeh'd Old Man? by Susan Kray
    The Desire to Control Time in Doraemon and Japanese Culture by Jefferson M. Peters
    Time Capsules
    The Conversion of Space-Time in Dante's Divine Comedy by Pekka Kuusisto
    Temporal Compression, Fractious History: H. G. Wells, George Orwell, and the Mutiny of "Historical" Narrative by Larry Caldwell
    Play It Again, Sam: Ken Grimwood's Replay and Time Travel as Reincarnation by Andrew Gordon
    Time Travel at the Crossroads: The Search for New Paradigms in Science and Science Fiction by Bradford Lyau
    Tall, Dark, and a Long Time Dead; Epistemology, Time Travel, and the Bodice Ripper by Erica Obey
    Bibliography of Works Related to Time and Time Travel
    Index
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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