Rumors of War and Infernal Machines: Technomilitary Agenda-Setting in American and British Speculative Fiction

by Charles E. Gannon

Book Overview

This provocative and unique work reveals the remarkably influential role of futuristic literature on contemporary political power in America. Tracing this phenomenon from its roots in Victorian Britain, Rumors of War and Infernal Machines offers a fascinating exploration of how fictional speculations on emergent or imaginary military technologies profoundly influence the political agendas and actions of modern superpower states. Gannon convincingly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742540340
• ISBN13: 9780742540347
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.3"