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The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World Paperback - 2000
by Thomas M. Disch
A popular insider offers a fascinating history of science fiction filled with provocative critiques, tidbits, and insights that reveal much about our cultural and literary history.
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America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art form best adapted to telling the lies we like to hear and to pretend we believe.
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- Title The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
- Author Thomas M. Disch
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Free Press, New York
- Date 2000-07-01
- ISBN 9780684859781 / 0684859785
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Literature and society, Science fiction - History and criticism
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.387
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- New York Times, 07/02/2000, Page 20
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