The way to ground zero : the atomic bomb in American science fiction /

The way to ground zero : the atomic bomb in American science fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bartter, Martha A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Greenwood Press, 1988.
Series:Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 33.
Subjects:
1939-1945
Science fiction, American > History and criticism.
Atomic bomb in literature.
Nuclear warfare in literature.
War stories, American > History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Literature and the war.
World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war.
Nuclear warfare and literature.
Science-fiction américaine > Histoire et critique.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Littérature et guerre.
Bombe atomique dans la littérature.
Guerre nucléaire et littérature.
Récits de guerre américains > Histoire et critique.
Guerre nucléaire dans la littérature.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > États-Unis > Littérature et guerre.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
Science fiction, American.
War and literature.
War stories, American.
Kernwaffe
Science-Fiction-Literatur
Science-Fiction
Amerikaans.
Science fiction.
Kernwapens.
Romans.
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) > Littérature et guerre.
United States.
USA
USA.
Science fiction in English > American writers > Special subjects: Nuclear warfare - Critical studies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION: THE SUPERMAN SYNDROME
  • Why fiction?
  • Why science fiction?
  • The plan of the book
  • Chronology: the Atomic Bomb
  • PART I. THE WAY TO HIROSHIMA
  • 1. INTERNATIONAL WATERS: BEFORE WORLD WAR I
  • The "Lone Inventor"
  • Wars to end War
  • Creating scenarios
  • Fictional tactics
  • Further assumptions
  • 2. "I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE": BEFORE WORLD WAR II
  • A new genre
  • Atoms for Fun and Profit
  • Saving the world
  • Losing the race
  • Research gone wrong
  • Repel the invaders
  • Return to the wilderness
  • Fictional tactics
  • Assumptions
  • 3. DARK WORDS OF WARNING
  • Awful warnings
  • Return to the wilderness II
  • Down with the Tyrants
  • Fictional tactics
  • Assumptions
  • 4. SCIENCE AND SCIENCE FICTION
  • Images of the scientist
  • Scientist amd science fiction
  • The social institution of science
  • Lived assumptions
  • 5. A SCIENCE FICTION WORLD
  • The bomb and boom
  • Guilt and Glory
  • Reactions
  • Assumptions
  • PART II: CIRCLING GROUND ZERO
  • 6. THE NATURE OF "HUMAN NATURE"
  • Models of human nature
  • The problem of control
  • The problem of war
  • The problem of Language
  • 7. THE HERO AND SOCIETY: STURGEON VERSUS HEINLEIN:
  • The protagonist
  • The society
  • Before the bomb
  • The bomb and after
  • The contrasting vision
  • Summary: stories by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Stories by Theodore Sturgeon
  • 8. HUMANS AND HISTORY
  • War prevented
  • War presented
  • The postwar community
  • Cycles of history
  • Circling Ground Zero
  • PART III: LEAVING GROUND ZERO
  • 9. NEW ASSUMPTIONS.