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Worlds enough and time : explorations of time in science fiction and fantasy

With our lives firmly controlled by the steady pace of time, humans have yearned for ways to escape its constraints, and authors have responded with narratives about traveling far into the past or future, reversing the flow of time, or creating alternate universes where Napoleon was triumphant at Waterloo or the South won the Civil War.
Print Book, English, 2002
Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
vi, 198 Seiten ; 25 cm.
9780313317064, 0313317062
231971893
Introduction: The Quarries of Time by Gary WestfahlTime's ArrowArrows and Riddles of Time: Scientific Models of Time Travel by George Slusser and Robert HeathImpossible Times: Some Temporal Labyrinths in Science Fiction by Richard Saint-GelaisThe Jaws of the Intellect Grip the Flesh of Occurrence: Order in Time Travel by David Leiby"Backward, Turn Backward": Narratives of Reversed Time in Science Fiction by Andrew SawyerTimescapesBeyond the Endtime Terminus: Allegories of Coalescence in Far-Future Science Fiction by Kirk Hampton and Carol MacKayTime and Some Mysteries of Mind by Susan StrattonJews in Times: Alternate Histories and Futures in Space…. And Who Was that Bearded, Yarmulkeh'd Old Man? by Susan KrayThe Desire to Control Time in Doraemon and Japanese Culture by Jefferson M. PetersTime CapsulesThe Conversion of Space-Time in Dante's Divine Comedy by Pekka KuusistoTemporal Compression, Fractious History: H. G. Wells, George Orwell, and the Mutiny of "Historical" Narrative by Larry CaldwellPlay It Again, Sam: Ken Grimwood's Replay and Time Travel as Reincarnation by Andrew GordonTime Travel at the Crossroads: The Search for New Paradigms in Science and Science Fiction by Bradford LyauTall, Dark, and a Long Time Dead; Epistemology, Time Travel, and the Bodice Ripper by Erica ObeyBibliography of Works Related to Time and Time TravelIndex