American Cities In Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction
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American Cities In Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction
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Author : Robert Yeates
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
American Cities In Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction written by Robert Yeates and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with SOCIAL SCIENCE categories.
American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction explores the post-apocalyptic American city in literary and popular fiction, across print, visual, audio and digital media.
American Cities In Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction
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Author : Robert Yeates
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2021-11-15
American Cities In Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction written by Robert Yeates and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-15 with Social Science categories.
Visions of the American city in post-apocalyptic ruin permeate literary and popular fiction, across print, visual, audio and digital media. American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction explores the prevalence of these representations in American culture, drawing from a wide range of primary and critical works from the early-twentieth century to today. Beginning with science fiction in literary magazines, before taking in radio dramas, film, video games and expansive transmedia franchises, Robert Yeates argues that post-apocalyptic representations of the American city are uniquely suited for explorations of contemporary urban issues. Examining how the post-apocalyptic American city has been repeatedly adapted and repurposed to new and developing media over the last century, this book reveals that the content and form of such texts work together to create vivid and immersive fictional spaces in ways that would otherwise not be possible. Chapters present media-specific analyses of these texts, situating them within their historical contexts and the broader history of representations of urban ruins in American fiction. Original in its scope and cross-media approach, American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction both illuminates little-studied texts and provides provocative new readings of familiar works such as Blade Runner and The Walking Dead, placing them within the larger historical context of imaginings of the American city in ruins.
Earth Abides
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Author : George.R. Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-06-30
Earth Abides written by George.R. Stewart and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-30 with Fiction categories.
In this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors, returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence. Eventually he returns to San Francisco and encounters a female survivor who becomes his wife. Around them and their children a small community develops, living like their pioneer ancestors, but rebuilding civilization is beyond their resources, and gradually they return to a simpler way of life. A poignant novel about finding a new normal after the upheaval of a global crisis.
Remainders Of The American Century
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Author : Brent Ryan Bellamy
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-08
Remainders Of The American Century written by Brent Ryan Bellamy and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to the present as reflections of a growing anxiety about the decline of US hegemony. Post-apocalyptic novels imagine human responses to the aftermath of catastrophe. The shape of the future they imagine is defined by "the remainder," when what is left behind expresses itself in storytelling tropes. Since 1945 the portentous fate of the United States has shifted from the irradiated future of nuclear holocaust to the saltwater wash of global warming. Theorist Brent Ryan Bellamy illuminates the political unconscious of post-apocalyptic writing, drawing on a range of disciplinary fields, including science fiction studies, American studies, energy humanities research, and critical race theory. From George R. Stewart's Earth Abides to N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season, Remainders of the American Century describes the tension between a reactionary impulse and the progressive impetus for a new world.
Fantastic Cities
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Author : Stefan Rabitsch
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2022-02-04
Fantastic Cities written by Stefan Rabitsch and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-04 with Social Science categories.
Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem’s Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City—American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. Fantastic Cities builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies. Contributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial The Phantom Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson’s fiction, Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One, the vampire films Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel The Water Knife, some of Kenny Scharf’s videos, and Samuel Delany’s classic Dhalgren. Together, the contributions in Fantastic Cities demonstrate that the fantastic is able to “real-ize” that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city.
Feed The Machine Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction
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Author : Mathew Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Mathew Ferguson
Release Date :
Feed The Machine Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction written by Mathew Ferguson and has been published by Mathew Ferguson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Feed the Machine... or die. Welcome to Cago. A small town protected by three electrified fences, the people within eke out an existence scavenging in the Scour, the wasteland of ruined junk and twisted metal that is all that remains of the old world. They are forced to feed the Machine to fulfill their yearly quota or be ripped to pieces by the silver mechanical bugs that live within it. In this broken future, three siblings are fighting to fill the quota, time rapidly counting down to the yearly Feed. If they fail, they'll be forced to sell themselves to Fat Man, a brutal tyrant, to survive. Their father is long gone, vanishing one night with all their wealth, throwing his family into poverty. Their mother scrapes out a living carting waste for the rich. Ash is marching out into the Scour, a deadly place inhabited by Scabs, bloodthirsty cannibals, and hazels, monsters of meat and circuitry that stalk the night. A fallen missile is his last hope. Nola has a plan that relies on seduction or violence - she doesn't care much which if it gets them free. Silver, youngest and struggling with a mind that turns its sharpest knives inward has a bigger plan than any of them. One that could not only free them but possibly change the world... A new dystopian science fiction novel from Mathew Ferguson
Cities In Chains
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Author : Tao Wong
language : en
Publisher: Tao Wong
Release Date : 2018-06
Cities In Chains written by Tao Wong and has been published by Tao Wong this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06 with categories.
It's been over a year since the System came to Earth, bringing blood and monsters in equal measure. Having left Whitehorse, John and his team travel down to British Columbia, running into new dangers from aliens and humans alike. Faced with new challenges and new enemies, John steps up once more to set things right and teach a few aliens why you never put humanity in chains. Cities in Chains is Book 4 of the System Apocalypse, a LitRPG novel set in a post-apocalyptic Earth that combines modern day life, science fiction and fantasy elements along with game mechanics.
The City Not Long After
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Author : Pat Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-04-15
The City Not Long After written by Pat Murphy and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-15 with Fiction categories.
A chilling postapocalyptic novel of hope, despair, art, and war from the Nebula and Philip K. Dick Award–winning author of The Falling Woman. A plague wiped out most of the population, but some have been spared. In San Francisco, those who were left—painters, writers, dreamers—began rebuilding the city in their image: a society based on art, community, and peace. But not everyone has the same pacifist ideals. When a mysterious young woman, Jax, appears in San Francisco, she brings disturbing news. There’s a power-hungry man, a general, moving across California, annexing cities and rebuilding his own version of America, willing to destroy anyone who stands in his way. His sights are set on the Golden Gate Bridge, and his army will soon descend, bringing guns, determination, and violence. If Jax and her allies are to survive, they’ll have to defend themselves with nothing more than their creativity—and the soul of a city that refuses to be dominated. Drawing comparisons to the mind-bending work of Gabriel García Márquez, this lush and thought-provoking dystopian novel is an examination of human spirit, for better or worse, and a magical journey into what it means to survive.
Alas Babylon
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Author : Pat Frank
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-06-04
Alas Babylon written by Pat Frank and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-04 with Fiction categories.
“An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable determination of living creatures to keep on being alive.” —The New Yorker “Alas, Babylon.” Those fateful words heralded the end. When the unthinkable nightmare of nuclear holocaust ravaged the United States, it was instant death for tens of millions of people; for survivors, it was a nightmare of hunger, sickness, and brutality. Overnight, a thousand years of civilization were stripped away. But for one small Florida town, miraculously spared against all the odds, the struggle was only just beginning, as the isolated survivors—men and women of all ages and races—found the courage to come together and confront the harrowing darkness. This classic apocalyptic novel by Pat Frank, first published in 1959 at the height of the Cold War, includes an introduction by award-winning science fiction writer and scientist David Brin.
Screening Children In Post Apocalypse Film And Television
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Author : Debbie Olson
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2023
Screening Children In Post Apocalypse Film And Television written by Debbie Olson and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Performing Arts categories.
This collection examines the child's role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television.. By exploring the function of child characters within a dystopian framework, this volume illustrates how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often works to reaffirm the "rightness" of past systems of social order.