Dying planet : Mars in science and the imagination / Robert Markley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markley, Robert, 1952-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, American--History and criticism.

Science fiction, American.

Mars (Planet)--In literature.

Mars (Planet).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity's place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet analyzes the ways Mars has served as a screen onto which humankind has projected both its hopes for the future and its fears of ecological devastation on Earth. Robert Markley draws on planetary astronomy, the history and cultural study of science, science fiction, literary and cultural criticism, ecology, and astrobiology to offer a cross-disciplinary investigation of the cultural and scientific dy

Contents:

"A situation in many respects similar to our own" : Mars and the limits of analogy

Lowell and the canal controversy : Mars at the limits of vision

"Different beyond the most bizarre imaginings of nightmare" : Mars in science fiction, 1880-1913

Lichens on Mars : planetary science and the limits of knowledge

Mars at the limits of imagination : the dying planet from Burroughs to Dick

The missions to Mars : Mariner, Viking, and the reinvention of a world

Transforming Mars, transforming humankind : science fiction in the space age

Mars at the turn of a new century

Falling into theory : terraformation and eco-economics in Kim Stanley

Robinson's Martian trilogy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-435) and index.

ISBN:

9780822387275

0822387271

OCLC:

609235190