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Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles - Contesting the Road in American Science Fiction (Hardcover)
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Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles - Contesting the Road in American Science Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, 66
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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. Futuristic
Cars and Space Bicycles is the first book to examine 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. With chapters ranging from the early
science fiction of the pulp magazine era in the 1920s and 1930s, to
the postcyberpunk of the 1990s and more recent media of the 2000s
such as web television, zines, and comics, this book argues that
science fiction by and large perceives the car as anything but a
marvelous invention of modernity. Rather, the genre often scorns
and ridicules the automobile and instead promotes more sustainable,
more benign, more restrained technologies of movement such as the
bicycle.
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