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Rumors of War and Infernal Machines - Technomilitary Agenda-setting in American and British Speculative Fiction (Paperback, 1st Rowman & Littlefield ed)
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Rumors of War and Infernal Machines - Technomilitary Agenda-setting in American and British Speculative Fiction (Paperback, 1st Rowman & Littlefield ed)
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This provocative and unique work reveals the remarkably influential
role of futuristic literature on contemporary political power in
America. Tracing this phenomenon from its roots in Victorian
Britain, Rumors of War and Infernal Machines offers a fascinating
exploration of how fictional speculations on emergent or imaginary
military technologies profoundly influence the political agendas
and actions of modern superpower states. Gannon convincingly
demonstrates that military fiction anticipated and even influenced
the evolution of the tank, the development of the airplane, and
also the bitter political battles within Britain's War Office and
the Admiralty. In the United States, future-fictions and Cold-War
thrillers were an officially acknowledged factor in the Pentagon's
research and development agendas, and often gave rise_and shape_to
the nation's strategic development of technologies as diverse as
automation, atomic weaponry, aerospace vehicles, and the Strategic
Defense Initiative ('Star Wars'). His book reveals a striking
relationship between the increasing political influence of
speculative military fiction and the parallel rise of superpower
states and their technocentric ideologies. With its detailed
political, historical, and literary analysis of U.S. and British
fascination with hi-tech warfare, this lively and revealing study
will appeal to students, literary and cultural scholars, military
and history enthusiasts, and general readers.
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