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Book ID: CBB001252921

Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (2012)

Geppert, Alexander C. T. (Editor)

Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN: 9780230231726

Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xvii + 393 pp.; ill.; bibl.
Language: English

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Collected works Science and society Extraterrestrial life; exobiology Futurism Popular culture Space research and exploration Science and literature Mars 20th century Europe United States

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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Reviewed By

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). unapi

Review Launius, Roger D. (2013) Review of "Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century". Technology and Culture (pp. 689-690). unapi

Essay Review Launius, Roger D. (2014) Realizing the New Aerospace History. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 187-195). unapi

Includes Chapters

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). unapi

Chapter Schmölders, C. (2012) Heaven on Earth: Tunguska, 30 June 1908. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 45). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

Chapter Munévar, G. (2012) Self-Reproducing Automata and the Impossibility of SETI. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 267). unapi

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). unapi

Chapter Pocock, P. (2012) Look Up: Art in the Age of Orbitization. In: Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (p. 319). unapi

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