Format:
Book
Title:
Frontiers past and future : science fiction and the American West / Carl Abbott.
Author:
Abbott, Carl.
Call Number:
C813 A13fr 2006
Web Site:
Publisher, Date:
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2006.
Description:
viii, 230 p. ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Alternative histories (Fiction), American -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.
Western stories -- History and criticism.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
Literature and history -- West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) -- In literature.
Contents:
Introduction: launching pads -- Never final frontiers -- Beyond Alaska: Sourdoughs, Lunies, Belters, and other tough guys -- Science projects -- Johnny Appleseed, John Wayne, and homesteading on the extraterrestrial frontier -- Frontier democracy -- On the urban edge -- Information everywhere: Pacific destinies in the twenty-first century -- Bigger than Texas! Americans, our Wests, and science fiction.
ISBN:
0700614303 (alk. paper)