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Fantastic cities : American urban spaces in science fiction, fantasy, and horror / Stefan Rabitsch, Michael Fuchs, and Stefan L. Brandt.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction--History and criticism.
- Science fiction.
- Horror tales--History and criticism.
- Horror tales.
- Fantasy fiction--History and criticism.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Public spaces in literature.
- Cities and towns in literature.
- Future, The, in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- FANTASTIC CITIES
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section I: Imagining Fantastic Cities
- Imagining Gotham: Hard Knowledge in a Soft City
- "Whither Mankind?" The Fantastic Meets the Frontier in The Phantom Empire
- Cities and Communities: The Urban Vision of Kim Stanley Robinson
- Section II: Picturing the End of the Urban World
- The Banality of the Apocalypse: Colson Whitehead's Necropolis and Mirthless Parody
- Cities of the Dead: Urban Vampires in Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
- Confronting Race and Racism in the Post-Apocalyptic American City
- The Water Apocalypse: Utopian Desert Venice Cities and Arcologies in Southwestern Dystopian Fiction
- "It's Not Good Here Anymore": Nuclear Survival and New York City's Space in Kenny Scharf's Videos
- Section III: Freedom and Restrictions in the Fantastic City
- Sylvester Stallone and Urban Order in the 1980s and 1990s: Gendering the City in Demolition Man and Judge Dredd
- "We Speak Another Language Here": Samuel Delany's Dhalgren and the City of Folly
- Imagining Digital Cities: Freedom and (Non-)Human Agency in Representations of Virtual Realities
- Sleep Dealer
- or, Tijuana, Ciudad del Futuro
- Section IV: The City and Its Environment(s)
- Terraforming and the City
- Olympia, Wilderness, and Consumption in Laird Barron's Old Leech Cycle
- Ecological Plant-Based Urban Planning Makes Eleanor Cameron's The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet Real
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 01, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Louis Haney Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Fantastic cities
- ISBN:
- 9781496836670
- 1496836677
- 9781496836649
- 1496836642
- 9781496836656
- 1496836650
- 9781496836663
- 1496836669
- Publisher Number:
- 99989743690
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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