Fictions of Nuclear Disaster
by David Dowling
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This work is critical study of literary interpretations of the nuclear holocaust. The author examines more than 250 stories and novels dealing with the theme of nuclear power and its devastating potential implications. Addressing such topics as the scientist and Armageddon, the role of religion, future evolution and mutation, and the postnuclear society, the author assesses the response of Bradbury, Lessing, Malamud, Shute, Huxley, Vonnegut, Heinlein, and others to the threat of nuclear apocalypse, with in-depth analyses of Alter Miller's A canticle for Leibowitz and Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker.
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History and criticism, Disasters in literature, Nuclear warfare in literature, Modern Literature, Science fiction, Science-fiction, Atomkrieg (Motiv), Literatur, Nuclear warfare and literature, Atomkrieg, Englisch, Auswirkung, Histoire et critique, Catastrophes dans la littérature, Guerre nucléaire dans la littérature, Science fiction, history and criticism, English fictionTimes
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Fictions of Nuclear Disaster
January 7, 1987, University of Iowa Press
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Bibliography: p. 230-235.
Includes index.
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