Futuristic cars and space bicycles : contesting the road in American science fiction / Jeremy Withers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Withers, Jeremy, author.

Series:

Liverpool science fiction texts and studies.

Liverpool scholarship online.

Liverpool science fiction texts and studies

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, American--History and criticism.

Science fiction, American.

Transportation in literature.

Automobiles in literature.

Bicycles in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Given the extensive influence of the 'transport revolution' on the past two centuries (a time when trains, trams, omnibuses, bicycles, cars, airplanes, and so forth were invented), and given science fiction's overall obsession with machines and technologies of all kinds, it is surprising that scholars have not paid more attention to transportation in this increasingly popular genre. This book examines the history of representations of road transport machines in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century American science fiction. The focus of this study is on two machines of the road that have been locked in a constant, often bitter, struggle with one another: the automobile and the bicycle.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 11, 2020).

ISBN:

1-80034-135-0

1-78962-755-9