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Future Wars: The Anticipations and the Fears

David Seed

First published 2012
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages ix+302
ISBN 9781846317552

Apparent first edition.
This entry is for the initial printing as per copyright page ("First published 2012").
The cover image is credited to Victor Habbick Visions/Getty.
The cover design is credited to Emily Wilkinson.
Data from OCLC; the day of publication and the price (£65.00) are not present in or on the book, their origin is unknown (Amazon ?).

Year Reviewer Publication
2013 Allan Weiss SFRA Review #303

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction (Future Wars: The Anticipations and the Fears) David Seed Essay
9 Future-War Fiction: The First Main Phase, 1871-1900 I. F. Clarke Essay
32 How America's Fictions of Future War Have Changed the World H. Bruce Franklin Essay
50 War Is Peace: Conscription and Mobilization in Modern Utopia Patrick Parrinder Essay
66 From Invasion to Liberation: Alternative Visions of Mars, Planet of War Robert Crossley Essay
85 John Henry Palmer's The Invasion of New York, or, How Hawaii Was Annexed: Political Discourse and Emergent Mass Culture in 1897 John Rieder Essay
103 John Wyndham's World War III and his Abandoned Fury of Creation Trilogy David Ketterer Essay
130 Prophesying Neocolonial Wars in 1950s American Science Fiction Rob Latham Essay
144 On the Beach: British Nuclear Fiction and the Spaces of Empire's End Brian Baker Essay
161 Adapting the Absurd Apocalypse: Eugene Burdick's and Harvey Wheeler's Fail-Safe and its Cinematic Progeny Nicholas Ruddick Essay
180 The Strategic Defence Initiative: A Utopian Fantasy David Seed Essay
201 When All Wars Are Done: The Transcendent Humanity of Iain M. Banks Patricia Kerslake Essay
218 'The Benefit and the Handicap of Hindsight': Modelling Risk and Reassessing Future-War Fiction After the 9/11-Induced Shift to a US National Security Strategy of Pre-Emptive Attack A. Michael Matin Essay
246 The War After Next: Anticipating Future Conflict in the New Millennium Antulio J. Echevarria, II Essay
267 The Writings of I. F. Clarke: A Checklist uncredited Essay