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Author Markley, Robert, 1952-

Title Dying planet [electronic resource] : Mars in science and the imagination / Robert Markley.

Imprint Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 444 p. : ill.
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-435) and index.
Contents "A situation in many respects similar to our own" : Mars and the limits of analogy -- Lowell and the canal controversy : Mars at the limits of vision -- "Different beyond the most bizarre imaginings of nightmare" : Mars in science fiction, 1880-1913 -- Lichens on Mars : planetary science and the limits of knowledge -- Mars at the limits of imagination : the dying planet from Burroughs to Dick -- The missions to Mars : Mariner, Viking, and the reinvention of a world -- Transforming Mars, transforming humankind : science fiction in the space age -- Mars at the turn of a new century -- Falling into theory : terraformation and eco-economics in Kim Stanley -- Robinson's Martian trilogy.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Mars (Planet) -- In literature.
Mars (Planet)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780822387275
0822387271
0822336006 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822336006 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822336383 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822336389 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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