This book places major emphasis on the 'predictive' aspects of the future war genre and on the important role that writers played in official US military think-tanks after the Second World War. From the profusion of future war fictions in Victorian England which paralleled the British Empire's struggle to convert itself into the first modern superpower, to the USAAF future war-planning conference (where almost a quarter of the invitees were authors of military science fiction), Rumors of War and Infernal Machines provides a detailed political, historical and literary analysis of the American and European ever-increasing fascination with mechanised warfare.
| ISBN: | 9780853237082 |
| Publication date: | 1st October 2003 |
| Author: | Charles Gannon |
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies |
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Anthologies: general |
This book places major emphasis on the 'predictive' aspects of the future war genre and on the important role that writers played in official US military think-tanks after the Second World War. From the profusion of future war fictions in Victorian England which paralleled the British Empire's struggle to convert itself into the first modern superpower, to the USAAF future war-planning conference (where almost a quarter of the invitees were authors of military science fiction), Rumors of War and Infernal Machines provides a detailed political, historical and literary analysis of the American and European ever-increasing fascination with mechanised warfare.
Rumors of War and Infernal Machines features in the following genres: Anthologies: general
Rumors of War and Infernal Machines is available in Paperback
Rumors of War and Infernal Machines was written by Charles Gannon and published by Liverpool University Press
Rumors of War and Infernal Machines has 320 pages
Yes it is part of Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies series