Chaos Theory, Asimov's Foundations and Robots, and Herbert's Dune: The Fractal Aesthetic of Epic Science Fiction

by Donald E. Palumbo

Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert remain two of the most popular and influential science fiction writers of the 20th century. Each is a master structuralist whose works succeed in large part through the careful mirroring of concepts at every narrative level. While the fiction of Herbert and Asimov has attracted scholarly attention, science itself is a crucial element that is almost completely ignored in critical assessments of science fiction as literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313311897
• ISBN13: 9780313311895
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.7"