Fighting the Future War: An Anthology of Science Fiction War Stories, 1914-1945. FredericKrome, Editor. New York: Routledge, 2012.

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Curley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future War ◽  
War Stories

scholarly journals France, Germany and Europe

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-304
Author(s):  
H. L. Wesseling
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future War ◽  
Fiction Writer

In 1999, a book appeared in Paris with the rather alarming title De la prochaine guerre avec l'Allemagne (‘On the future war with Germany’). It had not been written by some sensationalist science-fiction writer, but by none other than Philippe Delmas, a former aid to Roland Dumas, who was twice minister of Foreign Affairs under the Mitterrand administration.

The Miracle Year: Winter and Spring

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. Eller
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Major Market ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Receive

This chapter focuses on Ray Bradbury's auspicious year as a writer during the winter and spring of 1950. Between the fall of 1949 and the fall of 1950, Bradbury submitted major works such as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man to various publications. His readers were beginning to make little distinction between his science fiction, his fantasy, and his semiautobiographical Green Town stories. Finally, Don Congdon was overcoming major market editorial resistance to Bradbury's stylistic originality and his specialized subjects. This chapter examines Bradbury's remarkable successes during the first weeks of 1950, which saw his science fiction tales “There Will Come Soft Rains” and “To the Future” being bought by Collier's, and “The Illustrated Man” by Esquire. It also discusses other significant developments in Bradbury's career, including a productive publishing visit to New York, his return to California to receive his “Invisible Little Man” award, and make his keynote address at the Bay Area society's annual banquet.

Stretching the Truth Way into the Future: Cynthia Hopkins's The Success of Failure (Or, The Failure of Success)

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-171
Author(s):  
Gwendolyn Alker
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
York City ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Future

Cynthia Hopkins is the latest “It-girl” on the contemporary theatre scene of New York City. Her recent The Success of Failure (Or, The Failure of Success) is the third installment of the Accidental Nostalgia trilogy, a poetic and enigmatic multimedia epic that is part autobiography, part science fiction, part none of the above.

Waiting for the Barbarians

2021 ◽  
pp. 194-223
Author(s):  
Mark Storey
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
York City ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Representation ◽  
American Science ◽  
The Future ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Waiting For The Barbarians

The final chapter moves to the future-oriented narratives of American science fiction, broadly conceived as a mode of representation committed to the imagination of alternative lifeworlds. The chapter opens with the Roman fragments of Michael Crichton’s Westworld and the remains of New York City in late nineteenth-century dystopian fiction in order to outline the paradoxical relationship between historical representation and the imagination of an imperial (or decolonized) future. The chapter then moves to its three key writers, Isaac Asimov, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Samuel R. Delany. While each of them offer quite differently fantastical visions of antiquity’s place in the logics and aesthetics of the future, they all find connections through their employment of the ancient figure of the “barbarian” and its role in imperial philosophies and politics.

Author Processing Charges: Barriers to Open Research, Barriers to Progress

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin O’Hanlon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Research ◽  
The Future

Presentation slides from Metropolitan New York Library Council Open Access Symposium: "The Future Is Open Access, but How Do We Get There?: A Symposium." September 12-13, 2019. New York. NY.

Prologue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Antebellum America ◽  
Women Slaves ◽  
Military Planning ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future War

This introduction explains that looming, a nineteenth-century term for a superior mirage, shows us how visions of the future war affected antebellum America. First, some spark, an event or object, captured people’s attention. Second, a unique atmosphere elevated and enlarged that spark, making it loom greater than reality. Before the Civil War was fought or remembered, it was imagined by thousands of Americans who peered at the horizon through an apocalyptic atmosphere. Third, observers focused on it and reported what appeared to be beyond the horizon. Popular forecasts rose from leaders but also women, slaves, immigrants, and common soldiers. These imaginings shaped politics, military planning, and the economy. The prologue identifies the two prevailing temporalities of antebellum America, anticipations and expectations, and calls for more historical attention to the diverse temporalities of past people.

Living machines in our cultural imagination

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Szollosy
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Cultural Imagination ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Public Imagination ◽  
The Human Condition

Public perceptions of robots and artificial intelligence (AI)—both positive and negative—are hopelessly misinformed, based far too much on science fiction rather than science fact. However, these fictions can be instructive, and reveal to us important anxieties that exist in the public imagination, both towards robots and AI and about the human condition more generally. These anxieties are based on little-understood processes (such as anthropomorphization and projection), but cannot be dismissed merely as inaccuracies in need of correction. Our demonization of robots and AI illustrate two-hundred-year-old fears about the consequences of the Enlightenment and industrialization. Idealistic hopes projected onto robots and AI, in contrast, reveal other anxieties, about our mortality—and the transhumanist desire to transcend the limitations of our physical bodies—and about the future of our species. This chapter reviews these issues and considers some of their broader implications for our future lives with living machines.

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