Given the intensive affect of the ‘transport revolution’ on the previous two centuries (a time when trains, trams, omnibuses, bicycles, automobiles, airplanes, and so forth had been invented), and given science fiction’s total obsession with machines and applied sciences of every kind, it’s shocking that students haven’t paid extra consideration to transportation on this more and more fashionable style. Futuristic Automobiles and Area Bicycles is the primary e-book to look at the historical past of representations of street transport machines in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century American science fiction. The main target of this research is on two machines of the street which have been locked in a continuing, usually bitter, battle with each other: the auto and the bicycle. With chapters starting from the early science fiction of the pulp journal period within the 1920s and 1930s, to the postcyberpunk of the 1990s and newer media of the 2000s resembling net tv, zines, and comics, this e-book argues that science fiction by and enormous perceives the automobile as something however a fabulous invention of modernity. Moderately, the style usually scorns and ridicules the auto and as a substitute promotes extra sustainable, extra benign, extra restrained applied sciences of motion such because the bicycle.
Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles: Contesting the Road in American Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and…
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Given the extensive influence of the ‘transport revolution’ on the past two centuries (a time when trains, trams, omnibuses, bicycles, cars, airplanes, and so forth were invented), and given science fiction’s overall obsession with machines and technologies of all kinds, it is surprising that scholars have not paid more attention to transportation in this increasingly popular genre. Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles is the first book to examine the history of representations of road transport machines in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century American science fiction. The focus of this study is on two machines of the road that have been locked in a constant, often bitter, struggle with one another: the automobile and the bicycle. With chapters ranging from the early science fiction of the pulp magazine era in the 1920s and 1930s, to the postcyberpunk of the 1990s and more recent media of the 2000s such as web television, zines, and comics, this book argues that science fiction by and large perceives the car as anything but a marvelous invention of modernity. Rather, the genre often scorns and ridicules the automobile and instead promotes more sustainable, more benign, more restrained technologies of movement such as the bicycle.
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