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This book explores how the year’s landmark works – films such as Forbidden Planet and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and stories such as Asimov’s The Last Question and Clarke’s The City and the Stars – emerged from their cultural context. Writers, artists, and film directors reflected the era’s tension between optimism and anxiety, between the promise and peril of progress.
The book traces, month-by-month, events in five themes: science and technology; politics and the economy; entertainment and arts; celebrity culture; and competitive sport. This was a climate defined by rapid change – from the Suez Crisis to Elvis Presley’s meteoric rise; from early computers to space race dreams. The science fiction emerging from this turbulent year helped form our collective imagination of tomorrow.
This book explores how the year’s landmark works – films such as Forbidden Planet and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and stories such as Asimov’s The Last Question and Clarke’s The City and the Stars – emerged from their cultural context. Writers, artists, and film directors reflected the era’s tension between optimism and anxiety, between the promise and peril of progress.
The book traces, month-by-month, events in five themes: science and technology; politics and the economy; entertainment and arts; celebrity culture; and competitive sport. This was a climate defined by rapid change – from the Suez Crisis to Elvis Presley’s meteoric rise; from early computers to space race dreams. The science fiction emerging from this turbulent year helped form our collective imagination of tomorrow.
Introduction.- Part one january.- Pushing at boundaries.- Sf and exploration.- Part two february.- Watching the watchers.- Sf and paranoia.- Part three march.- Unseen currents.- Sf and analysis.- Part 4 april.- United nations.- Sf and politics.- Part five may.- The seen and the silenced.- Sf and women.- Part six june.- The price of blind faith.- Sf and pseudoscience.- Part seven july.- Brushstrokes of history.- Sf and art.- Part eight august.- Missteps and mayhem.- Sf and nuclear armageddon.- Part nine september.- Signals of connection.- Sf and fandom.- Part ten october.- Rising stars.- Sf and youth.- Part eleven november.- We will bury you.- Sf and the quest for immortality.- Part twelve december.- Driving the future.- Sf and automation.- Works and persons mentioned.- Index.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Mathematik, Medizin, Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Technik allg. |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Reihe: | Science and Fiction |
| Inhalt: |
xxii
393 S. 42 s/w Illustr. 14 farbige Illustr. 393 p. 56 illus. 14 illus. in color. |
| ISBN-13: | 9783032165732 |
| ISBN-10: | 3032165733 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Webb, Stephen |
| Hersteller: |
Springer
Springer International Publishing AG Science and Fiction |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com |
| Maße: | 235 x 155 x 23 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Stephen Webb |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 28.05.2026 |
| Gewicht: | 0,628 kg |
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