The Free Press New York, Date: 1999 Clean and tight, unread looking, hardback first edition of this RARE IN THE UK book. A little shop aged, but there is no evidence of it having been read. Ruefully wise, as is to be expected of this discursive and visionary writer. He is brilliant when writing about Le Guin, or Heinlein and he is knowing and humorous; a rare combination. From the supernatural tales of Edgar Allen Poe to the utopian dreams and technological nightmares of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, to today when it has become a multi-billion dollar global entertainment industry. While he highlights the genre s predictive successes, he emphasises its cultural role as both a lens and a medium for the very rapid changes driven by modern technology. Disch traces sci-fi s role in modern life and explains how it has become a cultural battlefield even helping us to adjust to new social realities. But Disch is also critical of the genre and sees its darker expression in the appearance of suicidal UFO cults. Behind the spaceships and aliens, Disch reveals the blueprints of the dizzying postmodern future we have already begun to inhabit. This is in a clean and tight cloth two colour binding, but it has one slight defect. This may be a production fault. It looks like a 'bumped' corner. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1999. The Free Press New York ISBN 0684824051 9780684824055 [GB]

New York: Free Press, Date: 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted, light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted, light bumping to spine ends else bright, intact and whole. JEX 8/20 1998. Free Press ISBN 0684824051 9780684824055 [US]

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Free Press, Date: 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Book and jacket fine, jacket in protective mylar wrap. Lovely book. 1998. Free Press ISBN 0684824051 9780684824055 [US]

New York: The Free Press, Date: 1998. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 256 pages. The author has written an elegant and wonderfully lucid study of science fiction in all its glorious permutations. As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box,. 1998. The Free Press ISBN 0684824051 9780684824055 [US]

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Free Press 1998 Hardcover Good Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Free Press 1998 Hard cover Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Audience: General/trade.

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ISBN10: 0684824051, ISBN13: 9780684824055, [publisher: The Free Press New York] Hardcover First Edition Clean and tight, unread looking, hardback first edition of this RARE IN THE UK book. A little shop aged, but there is no evidence of it having been read. Ruefully wise, as is to be expected of this discursive and visionary writer. He is brilliant when writing about Le Guin, or Heinlein and he is knowing and humorous; a rare combination. From the supernatural tales of Edgar Allen Poe to the utopian dreams and technological nightmares of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, to today when it has become a multi-billion dollar global entertainment industry. While he highlights the genre s predictive successes, he emphasises its cultural role as both a lens and a medium for the very rapid changes driven by modern technology. Disch traces sci-fi s role in modern life and explains how it has become a cultural battlefield even helping us to adjust to new social realities. But Disch is also critical of the genre and sees its darker expression in the appearance of suicidal UFO cults. Behind the spaceships and aliens, Disch reveals the blueprints of the dizzying postmodern future we have already begun to inhabit. This is in a clean and tight cloth two colour binding, but it has one slight defect. This may be a production fault. It looks like a 'bumped' corner. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng
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ISBN10: 0684824051, ISBN13: 9780684824055, [publisher: Free Press, New York] Hardcover First Edition Book is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted, light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted, light bumping to spine ends else bright, intact and whole. JEX 8/20
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ISBN10: 0684824051, ISBN13: 9780684824055, [publisher: Free Press, New York] Hardcover "A keenly perceptive account of the impact science fiction has had on American culture." Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Appears as new.
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