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, Gannon convincingly demonstrates that military fiction anticipated and even influenced the evolution of the tank, the development of the airplane, and also the bitter political battles within Britain's War Office and the Admiralty. In the United States,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742540359
• ISBN13: 9780742540354
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"