Book ID: CBB001321157

Our Own Devices: Stories of the Machine Age (2012)

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Messier, Gilles (Author)


Petra Books


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: viii + 212 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Mid-century speculative fiction … … … The Second World War. Nuclear Power. Space Exploration. Three powerful forces that forever changed the course of history. In these nine new stories Gilles Messier explores our intimate and often fickle relationship with science and technology in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and how it came to define our past, present and future.

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Review Levy, Karen E. C. (2013) Review of "Our Own Devices: Stories of the Machine Age". Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society (pp. 55-56). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Friedman, Lester D.
Slaughter, Aimee
Zur, Dafna
Weingart, Peter
Thurs, Daniel Patrick
Svilpis, Janis
Concepts
Popular culture
Popularization
Science fiction
Science and literature
Public understanding of science
Science and culture
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
China
United States
Great Britain
North Korea
Netherlands
Spain
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