Mythologies of outer space /
Every culture and society has read stories in the night sky. From the careful attention of astronomers across all times and all parts of the world to the search for alien life, the stories found in the shapes of constellations to the expansive imaginings of science fiction, there has always been lif...
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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Calgary :
University of Calgary Press,
c2025.
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| Σειρά: | Cagliary Institute for the Humanities Series,
no. 4 |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Online πρόσβαση |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- How we let the moon die, & why it isn’t dead
- Imaginary voyages to the moon: lucian & his legacy
- Lucian’s voyage to the moon
- Space is part of the land: reconsidering the relationships between astronomy research, outer space exploration & colonialism
- Fifty years at the rothney
- Life in a parallel universe: the biocene
- “A kind of continuous conceptual drunkenness”?
- Science fiction that might have been, or the outer spaces of the gibson collection of speculative fiction
- Stellar Sequence
- In conversation with naomi potter
- Galaxy Series
- David Hoffos: On outer & inner space
- The book of the damned
- Afterword
- Appendix: UN moon treaty, “agreement governing the activities of states on the moon & other celestial bodies” (december 5, 1979)
- Contributors
