Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime

by Christopher Bolton

Book Overview

Since the end of the Second World War-and particularly over the last decade-Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual-from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira and Ghost in the Shell of the 1980s and 1990s-while little attention has been paid to a vibrant tradition of prose science...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081664974X
• ISBN13: 9780816649747
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"