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This collection by the much-loved and lauded science-fiction writer Thomas Disch spans twenty-five years of his career, during which he has supplemented his creative output with reviews and critical essays in publications as diverse as the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and Twilight Zone.Disch's perspectives on his genre are skeptical, novel, and often incendiary. The volume's opening essay, for example, characterizes writers of science fiction as "the provincials of literature." Other essays explore science fiction's roots-Poe, Bradbury, Clarke, Asimov, Vonnegut-as well as modern practitioners such as Stephen King, Philip Dick, Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and William Gibson.Disch entertains and provokes with essays on UFOs, Science Fiction as a Church, and Newt Gingrich's Futurist Brain Trust. Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Madame Blavatsky also get the Disch treatment. Throughout, the writing is lively, agile, and irreverent, exhibiting an incisive honesty that is undiluted by Disch's own attachments as a sci-fi practitioner. On SF will appeal equally to lovers of science fiction and connoisseurs of the finest critical prose.

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Science fiction, American --- Science fiction, English --- Cybernetics in literature

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"Dix spécialistes, scientifiques, philosophes et linguistes se penchent sur le chef-d'oeuvre de Frank Herbert et dissèquent l'un des plus grands monuments de la science-fiction mondiale. Ecologie, biologie, histoire des religions, astronomie, science politique ou chimie : de l'épice de longue vie aux fameux vers géants des sables, des mystères des Fremen aux arcanes de l'ordre féminin du Bène Gesserit en passant par les pouvoirs de la Voix, DUNE révèle ses secrets sous le prisme de la science !"

Science-fiction américaine. --- Sciences --- Vulgarisation. --- Herbert, Frank (1920-1986). --- Authors, American --- Science fiction, American --- Herbert, Frank.