Geppert, Alexander C. T. (Editor)
Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the twentieth-century imagination. Bringing together seventeen state-of-the-art essays, the volume explores the complexities of West-European astroculture and breaks new ground in the historicization of the Space Age.
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Review Matthew Shindell (2022) Review of "Limiting Outer Space: Astroculture After Apollo". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 779-781).
Review Launius, Roger D. (2013) Review of "Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century". Technology and Culture (pp. 689-690).
Essay Review Launius, Roger D. (2014) Realizing the New Aerospace History. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 187-195).
Chapter Dick, S. J. (2012) Space, Time and Aliens: The Role of Imagination in Outer Space. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 27).
Chapter Schmölders, C. (2012) Heaven on Earth: Tunguska, 30 June 1908. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 45).
Chapter Eisfeld, R. (2012) Projecting Landscapes of the Human Mind onto Another World: Changing Faces of an Imaginary Mars. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 89).
Chapter Bjørnvig, T. (2012) Transcendence of Gravity: Arthur C. Clarke and the Apocalypse of Weightlessness. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 127).
Chapter Mütter, B. (2012) Per Media Ad Astra? Outer Space in West Germany's Media, 1957--87. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 149).
Chapter Keazor, H. (2012) “A Stumble in the Dark”: Contextualizing Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Space: 1999. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 189).
Chapter Lagrange, P. (2012) A Ghost in the Machine: How Sociology Tried to Explain (Away) American Flying Saucers and European Ghost Rockets, 1946--47. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 224).
Chapter Miller, J. (2012) Seeing the Future of Civilization in the Skies of Quarouble: UFO Encounters and the Problem of Empire in Postwar France. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 245).
Chapter Macauley, W. R. (2012) Inscribing Scientific Knowledge: Interstellar Communication, NASA's Pioneer Plaque, and Contact with Cultures of the Imagination, 1971--72. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 285).
Chapter Geppert, A. C. T. (2012) European Astrofuturism, Cosmic Provincialism Historicizing the Space Age. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 3).
Chapter Brandstetter, T. (2012) Imagining Inorganic Life: Crystalline Aliens in Science and Fiction. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 65).
Chapter Neufeld, M. J. (2012) “Smash the Myth of the Fascist Rocket Baron”: East German Attacks on Wernher von Braun in the 1960s. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 106).
Chapter Syon, G. de (2012) Balloons on the Moon: Visions of Space Travel in Francophone Comic Strips. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 170).
Chapter Battaglia, D. (2012) Life as We Don't Yet Know It: An Anthropologist's First Contact with the Science of “Weird Life”. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 211).
Chapter Munévar, G. (2012) Self-Reproducing Automata and the Impossibility of SETI. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 267).
Chapter Weddigen, T. (2012) Alien Spotting: Damien Hirst's Beagle 2, Mars Lander'S Calibration Target and the Exploitation of Outer Space. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 304).
Chapter Pocock, P. (2012) Look Up: Art in the Age of Orbitization. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 319).
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Geppert, A. C. T.;
(2012)
European Astrofuturism, Cosmic Provincialism Historicizing the Space Age
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Article
Martin Schneider;
(2023)
Der Mars zwischen Phantasie und Fakt: Vom antiken Gott über den feindlichen Nachbarn zum Objekt astronomischer Forschung (Mars between fantasy and fact: from ancient god to hostile neighbor to object of astronomical research)
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Syon, G. de;
(2012)
Balloons on the Moon: Visions of Space Travel in Francophone Comic Strips
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Macauley, William R.;
(2012)
Crafting the Future: Envisioning Space Exploration in Post-War Britain
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Thesis
Newell, Catherine Lea;
(2012)
The Wheels of Titan: Faith, the Future, and the American Frontier
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Castagnaro, Mario;
(2012)
Lunar Fancies and Earthly Truths: The Moon Hoax of 1835 and the Penny Press
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Griswold, Robert L.;
(2012)
“Russian Blonde in Space”: Soviet Women in the American Imagination, 1950--1965
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Vincenzo Schettino;
(2014)
Scienza e arte: Chimica, arti figurative e letteratura
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Peter J. Bowler;
(2017)
A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from H. G. Wells to Isaac Asimov
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Thesis
Lane, Kristina Maria Doyle;
(2006)
Imaginative Geographies of Mars: The Science and Significance of the RedPlanet, 1877--1910
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MariaLane, K. D.;
(2006)
Mapping the Mars Canal Mania: Cartographic Projection and the Creation of a Popular Icon
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Volland, Nicolai;
(2014)
Comment on “Let's Go to the Moon”
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Russo, Arturo;
(2011)
Europe's Path To Mars: The European Space Agency's Mars Express Mission
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Rothman, Tony;
(2014)
Searching for Great Adventures
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Thesis
Essig, Mark Regan;
(2000)
Science and sensation: Poison murder and forensic medicine in nineteenth-century America
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Currell, Susan;
Cogdell, Christina;
(2006)
Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s
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Briot, Danielle;
(2013)
The Creator of Astrobotany, Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov
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Boston, Penelope J.;
(2000)
The Case for Mars V
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Waugh, Patricia;
(2011)
Mind in Modern Fiction: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives after Darwin
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Baneke, David M.;
(2014)
Space for Ambitions: The Dutch Space Program in Changing European and Transatlantic Contexts
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