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  1. Orbiting Ray Bradbury's Mars
    biographical, anthropological, literary, scientific and other perspectives
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson, NC [u.a.]

    "This essay collection explores the life and work of sf doyen Ray Bradbury. Some essays analyze Bradbury's southwest metaphors, some via the lens of post-colonialism or they view Bradbury sociologically, analyzing border issues in his 1947 "I See You... more

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    "This essay collection explores the life and work of sf doyen Ray Bradbury. Some essays analyze Bradbury's southwest metaphors, some via the lens of post-colonialism or they view Bradbury sociologically, analyzing border issues in his 1947 "I See You Never." From the scientific side, Bradbury forms a significant link between the worlds of fiction and planetary science"..

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780786475766
    Series: Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 41
    Subjects: Bradbury, Ray;
    Other subjects: Bradbury, Ray, (1920-2012); Bradbury, Ray (1920-2012)
    Scope: IX, 253 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Orbiting Ray Bradbury's Mars
    Biographical, Anthropological, Literary, Scientific and Other Perspectives
    Author: McMillan, Gloria
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson

    This essay collection explores the life and work of science fiction doyen Ray Bradbury from a variety of perspectives. Noting the impact of the Southwest on Bradbury, some of the essays analyze Bradbury's southwest metaphors: colonial pollution of a... more

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Online-Ressource
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    This essay collection explores the life and work of science fiction doyen Ray Bradbury from a variety of perspectives. Noting the impact of the Southwest on Bradbury, some of the essays analyze Bradbury's southwest metaphors: colonial pollution of a pristine ecology, the impacts of a colonial invasion upon an indigenous population, the meeting of cultures with different values and physical aspects. Other essays view Bradbury via the lens of post-colonialism, drawing parallels between such works as The Martian Chronicles and real-life colonialism and its effects. Another essay views Bradbury so

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780786475766
    Series: Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy ; v.41
    Scope: Online-Ressource (264 p)
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    Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword (Peter Smith); Preface (Gloria McMillan); Introduction: Landing on Bradbury's Western Mars (Gloria McMillan); Part One: Biographical Lens; Miracles of Rare Device: Bradbury andthe American Southwest (Jonathan R. Eller); The Sorcerer's Apprentices: How the Lives of Three Regional "Weird Fiction" Writers Became Creatively Entangled (Wolf Forrest); Part Two: Anthropological Lens; Prescient Border Crossing: "I See You Never" and the Undocumented Mexicans Americans Prefer Not to See (Marleen S. Barr)

    Bradbury's Survivance Stories (Grace L. Dillon)A "Night Meeting" in the Southwest: Hospitality in The Martian Chronicles (Adam Lawrence); Illustrating Otherness: Crossing Frontier's in Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man (Francisco Laguna-Correa); Part Three: Literary Lens; Loss in the Language of Tomorrow: Journeying Through Tucson on the Way to "Usher II" (Aaron Barlow); Bradbury's Mars: Pathway to Reinvention and Redemption (Kimberly Fain)

    The Desert Is Earth and Mars: An Ecocritical, Bachelardian Exploration of "And the Moon Be Still as Bright" and It Came from Outer Space (Christopher Cokinos)Part Four: Scientific Lens; Why Does Mars Beckon Us? (Ari Espinoza); The Exploration of Mars: An Unintentional Invasion? (David M. Acklam); A Martian Chronicle (Charles L. Dugan, Jr.); The Naming of Names (Christopher P. McKay and Carol Stoker); Part Five: Media Lens; De-Alienating the Alien: The Limits of Empathy in NBC's The Martian Chronicles Miniseries (Paul Cote); The Illustrated Man Illustrates Our Future (Howard Allen)

    Silver Locusts on the Silver Screen: Bradbury's Western Mars Confronts 1960s British Art-Cinema (Martin R. Hall)Part Six: Educational Lens; Teaching Martians in Tucson (Gloria McMillan); About the Contributors; Index
  3. Orbiting Ray Bradbury's Mars
    biographical, anthropological, literary, scientific and other perspectives
    Published: c2013
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson, NC [u.a.]

    "This essay collection explores the life and work of sf doyen Ray Bradbury. Some essays analyze Bradbury's southwest metaphors, some via the lens of post-colonialism or they view Bradbury sociologically, analyzing border issues in his 1947 "I See You... more

    Location:
    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
    Signature:
    a ang 957 brad 9/314
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    Location:
    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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    2014 A 4011
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    "This essay collection explores the life and work of sf doyen Ray Bradbury. Some essays analyze Bradbury's southwest metaphors, some via the lens of post-colonialism or they view Bradbury sociologically, analyzing border issues in his 1947 "I See You Never." From the scientific side, Bradbury forms a significant link between the worlds of fiction and planetary science"--

     
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780786475766
    RVK Categories: HU 3191
    Series: Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 41
    Subjects: Bradbury, Ray;
    Other subjects: Bradbury, Ray (1920-2012)
    Scope: IX, 253 S., Ill., 23 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index