Contributor
Rogers, Brett M. editor of compilation.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Descriptionxiii, 380 pages : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:Science fiction's rosy-fingered dawn. The lunar setting of Johannes Kepler's Somnium, science fiction's missing link / Dean Swinford -- Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Jesse Weiner -- Virgil in Jules Verne's Journey to the center of the earth / Benjamin Eldon Stevens -- Mr. Lucian in suburbia: links between the true history and the first men in the moon / Antony Keen -- Science fiction 'classics'. A complex Oedipus: the tragedy of Edward Morbius / Gregory S. Bucher -- Walter M. Miller, jr.'s A canticle for Leibowitz, The great year, and The ages of man / Erik Grayson -- Time and self-referentiality in The Iliad and Frank Herbert's Dune / Joel Christensen -- Disability as rhetorical trope in classical myth and Blade runner / Rebecca Raphael -- Classics in space. Moral and mortal in Star trek: the original series / George Kovacs -- Hybrids and homecomings in The odyssey and alien resurrection / Brett M. Rogers -- Classical antiquity and western identity in Battlestar Galactica / Vincent Tomasso -- Ancient classics for a future generation? Revised Iliadic epiphanies in Dan Simmons' Ilium / Gaël Grobéty -- Refiguring the Roman Empire in The hunger games trilogy / Marian Makins -- Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and the end of antiquity / W. Marshall.
