Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles: Contesting the Road in American Science Fiction
Author:   Jeremy Withers (Department of English, Iowa State University (United States))
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Volume:   66
ISBN:  

9781789621754


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   04 June 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jeremy Withers (Department of English, Iowa State University (United States))
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
Volume:   66
ISBN:  

9781789621754


ISBN 10:   1789621755
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   04 June 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Perfectibility and Techno-Optimism in the Pulp Era 2. Murderous Cars, Space Bikes, and Alien Bicycles in the Golden Age 3. Electric Cars, Auto-Dueling, and Bike Shares in the New Wave 4. Messenger Skateboards and Messenger Bikes in Postcyberpunk 5. Staying Mobile in the Post-Apocalyptic World 6. Kids on Bikes in 1980s Nostalgia Texts Conclusion

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'With its broad historic reach, its synthesis of a variety of disparate types of research from a variety of scholarly disciplines, its lucid prose, and its welcome readability, Withers' Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles offers a significant contribution to both ecocritical discourse and the study of science fiction as a genre.' - Lisa Swanstrom, University of Utah


‘With its broad historic reach, its synthesis of a variety of disparate types of research from a variety of scholarly disciplines, its lucid prose, and its welcome readability, Withers' Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles offers a significant contribution to both ecocritical discourse and the study of science fiction as a genre.’ - Lisa Swanstrom, University of Utah


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Jeremy Withers is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Iowa State University. His previous publications include Culture on Two Wheels: The Bicycle in Literature and Film (edited with Daniel P. Shea, University of Nebraska Press) and The War of the Wheels: H. G. Wells and the Bicycle (Syracuse University Press).

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