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  1. The Orwellian moment
    hindsight and foresight in the post-1984 world
    Contributor: Savage, Robert L. (Hrsg.)
    Published: 1989
    Publisher:  Univ. of Arkansas Pr., Fayetteville [u.a.]

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Savage, Robert L. (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 1557280274
    RVK Categories: HM 3855
    Subjects: Dystopias in literature; Politics in literature; Future, The, in literature; Dystopias in literature; Politics in literature; Future in literature
    Other subjects: Orwell, George (1903-1950): Nineteen eighty-four; Array; Array
    Scope: VIII, 180 S.
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    Includes bibliographies and index

    Extending the Orwellian moment / the editors -- Orwell's political myths and ours / John S. Nelson -- Orwell's hopes, Orwell's fears / Michael P. Zuckert -- Dark Utopia / Mark E. Cory -- Fictional 1984 and factual 1984 / Thomas W. Cooper -- Haigspeak, Secretary of State Haig, and communication ethics / Richard L. Johannesen -- Manipulation and control of people's responses to public opinion polls / George F. Bishop -- An Orwellian Lasswell for today / Hayward R. Alker, Jr. -- Towards 2084 / James Combs.

  2. Die Zukunftsromane von Anthony Burgess
    Published: 1985
    Publisher:  Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft, Pfaffenweiler

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
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    ISBN: 3890850472
    RVK Categories: HN 2555
    Series: Reihe Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft ; Bd. 2
    Subjects: Future, The, in literature; Science fiction, English; Future in literature; Science fiction, English; Burgess, Anthony; Utopischer Roman
    Other subjects: Burgess, Anthony (1917-1993); Burgess, Anthony
    Scope: XVIII, 226 S.
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    Literaturverz. S. 214 - 226

    Zugl.: Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 1984

  3. Shadows of the future
    H.G. Wells, science fiction, and prophecy
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0815626916; 0815603320
    RVK Categories: HM 4755
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Series: Utopianism and communitarianism
    Subjects: Science fiction, English; Time travel in literature; Prophecies in literature; Future in literature; Science fiction, English; Time travel in literature; Prophecies in literature; Future, The, in literature; Zukunftsroman
    Other subjects: Wells, H. G; Wells, H. G (1866-1946); Wells, H. G (1866-1946): Time machine; Wells, H. G. (1866-1946)
    Scope: XI, 170 S.
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    Literaturverz. S. [152] - 162

  4. Histories of the future
    studies in fact, fantasy and science fiction
    Contributor: Sandison, Alan (Hrsg.)
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Palgrave, Basingstoke [u.a.]

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Sandison, Alan (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0333776410; 0312236042
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    Subjects: Science fiction, American; Future in literature; Science fiction, English; Future in popular culture; Literature and history; Science fiction, American; Future in literature; Science fiction, English; Future in popular culture; Literature and history
    Scope: XVIII, 202 S, Ill, 23 cm
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  5. Visions of the third millennium
    Black science fiction novelists write the future
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ [u.a.]

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  6. Worlds within women
    myth and mythmaking in fantastic literature by women
    Published: c1986; 2024
    Publisher:  Greenwood Press, New York, N.Y ; Bloomsbury Publishing, London

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    ISBN: 9798216039549; 0313044791; 9780313044793; 0313251010; 9780313251016
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    Series: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 22
    Subjects: Fantasy fiction, American; American fiction; Women and literature; Future in literature; Myth in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 214 p), 22 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-206) and index

  7. Still the new world
    American literature in a culture of creative destruction
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 0674004094
    Edition: 1. Harvard Univ. Press paperback ed., 2. printing
    Subjects: American literature; Literature and society; Conflict of generations in literature; Social change in literature; Future in literature
    Scope: 290 S., Ill.
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    Literaturverz. S. [279] - 284

  8. The Wellsian
    selected essays on H. G. Wells
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Equilibris Publ., Oss, NL

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    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 9059760018; 9059760026
    RVK Categories: HM 4755
    Subjects: Future in literature; Science fiction, English; Utopias in literature
    Other subjects: Wells, H. G <1866-1946>
    Scope: 239 p, ill
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  9. Die Zukunft in der Tasche
    Science Fiction und SF-Fandom in der Bundesrepublik; die Pionierjahre 1955 - 1960
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Dieter von Reeken, Lüneburg

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783940679116; 3940679119
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    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Subjects: Future in literature; Science fiction fans; Science fiction; Science fiction; Science fiction, German; Women and literature
    Scope: 215 S., Ill., 215 mm x 135 mm, 300 gr.
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    Literaturverz. S. 209 - 211

  10. Science Fiction Resource Guide
    Published: 2006

    Special Subject Virtual Libraries ; is "This page contains an extensive collection of links to SF resources on the Net. Subject areas include other archives and resource guides, authors, art and artists, bibliographies, movies, television,... more

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    Special Subject Virtual Libraries ; is "This page contains an extensive collection of links to SF resources on the Net. Subject areas include other archives and resource guides, authors, art and artists, bibliographies, movies, television, bookstores, book reviews, role-playing games, zines, etc. Some of the topics include Anne Rice, Bram Stoker, Jules Verne, H G Wells, Star Wars, Star Trek, nanotechnology, vampire fiction, and more."

     

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    Parent title: Enthalten in: SF-Lovers Home Page
    Subjects: science fiction; literature; resources; reviews; Science fiction, American; Science fiction, English; Science fiction; Future in literature
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  11. The uses of the future in early modern Europe
    Contributor: Brady, Andrea (MitwirkendeR); Butterworth, Emily (MitwirkendeR)
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York

    1. In pursuit of the millennia : Robert Crowley's changing concept of apocalypticism / A. Wade Razzi -- 2. Montaigne's forays into the undiscovered country / Richard Scholar -- 3. 'My promise sent unto myself' : futurity and the language of... more

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    1. In pursuit of the millennia : Robert Crowley's changing concept of apocalypticism / A. Wade Razzi -- 2. Montaigne's forays into the undiscovered country / Richard Scholar -- 3. 'My promise sent unto myself' : futurity and the language of obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia / J.K. Barret -- 4. Turkish futures : prophecy and the other / Brinda Charry -- 5. 'Provide for the future, and times succeeding' : Walter Ralegh and the progress of time / Andrew Hiscock -- 6. France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale : sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French representations of a colonial future in Brazil / Michael Harrigan -- 7. Planning ahead : a future for old age in Dialogue of comfort, Henry IV parts 1 and 2 and All's well that ends well / Nina Taunton -- 8. The future now : chance, time and natural divination in the thought of Francis Bacon / A.P. Langman -- 9. Prophetic architecture : Agrippa d'Aubigne in Paris / Phillip John Usher -- 10. Astrology, ritual and revolution in the works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) / Peter J. Forshaw -- 11. Mocking the future in French Renaissance mock-prognostications / Hugh Roberts -- 12. 'Meteorologies and extravagant speculations' : the future legends of early modern English natural philosophy / Rob Iliffe.

     

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    Contributor: Brady, Andrea (MitwirkendeR); Butterworth, Emily (MitwirkendeR)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780203864159; 9781135191917; 9781135191955; 9781135191962
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    Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 12
    Subjects: English literature; French literature; Future in literature; Literature and society; Renaissance
    Scope: 1 online resource (xx, 242 pages)
  12. Shadows of the future
    H. G. Wells, science fiction and prophecy
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

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    ISBN: 0853234396; 0853234493
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    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 6
    Subjects: Wells; Wells; Science fiction, English; Time travel in literature; Prophecies in literature; Future in literature; English fiction; Literature; Literature
    Scope: XI, 170 S, 24 cm
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    Bibliogr. H. G. Wells und Literaturverz. S. [152] - 162

  13. The uses of the future in early modern Europe
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York [u.a.]

    This collection of essays examines the idea of the future in early modern European literature, politics, religion, science, and social life. Investigating how both elite and popular writers represented their access to or control over the future, it... more

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    This collection of essays examines the idea of the future in early modern European literature, politics, religion, science, and social life. Investigating how both elite and popular writers represented their access to or control over the future, it proposes new insights into one of the defining characteristics of modernity

     

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    ISBN: 041599540X; 9780203864159; 0203864158; 9780415995405; 9781135191962; 9781282376809
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    Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 12
    Subjects: French literature; English literature; Renaissance; Future in literature; Literature and society
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xx, 242 p)
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    Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Foreword: The History of the Future, 1350-2000; Introduction; 1 In Pursuit of the Millennia: Robert Crowley's Changing Concept of Apocalypticism; 2 Montaigne's Forays into the Undiscovered Country; 3 'My Promise Sent Unto Myself': Futurity and the Language of Obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia; 4 Turkish Futures: Prophecy and the Other; 5 'Provide for the Future, and Times Succeeding': Walter Ralegh and the Progress of Time

    6 France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale: Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century French Representations of a Colonial Future in Brazil7 Planning Ahead: A Future for Old Age in Dialogue of Comfort, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and All's Well That Ends Well; 8 The Future Now: Chance, Time and Natural Divination in the Thought of Francis Bacon; 9 Prophetic Architecture: Agrippa d'Aubigné in Paris; 10 Astrology, Ritual and Revolution in the Works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639); 11 Mocking the Future in French Renaissance Mock-Prognostications

    12 'Meteorologies and Extravagant Speculations': The Future Legends of Early Modern English Natural PhilosophyContributors; Index

  14. Cy-Borges
    memories of the posthuman in the work of Jorge Luis Borges
    Contributor: Herbrechter, Stefan (Hrsg.)
    Published: c2009
    Publisher:  Bucknell Univ. Press, Lewisburg, Pa.

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    Contributor: Herbrechter, Stefan (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780838757154
    Subjects: Technology in literature; Future in literature; Future in literature; Technology in literature
    Other subjects: Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986); Borges
    Scope: 224 S.
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    ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Editors� Note""; ""Introduction: Did Someone Say ��Cy-Borges��?""; ""Borges: Post- or Transhuman?""; ""Babelation""; ""Borges, Technology, and the Same Infinite Substance as the Night""; ""Of Mirrors, Encyclopedias, and the Virtual""; ""Surviving in Borges, or, the Memory of Objects after the End of the World""; ""Borges and the Trauma of Posthuman History""; ""Archival Imaginings""; ""Borges�s Canny Laughter: ��a joyce for ever��""; ""��The Abysmal Problem of Time��: Dubbing Borges�s Garden""

    ""The Unrelated Future: Borges, Posthumanism, and the Temptations of Analogy""""Notes on Contributors""; ""Index""

  15. Science fiction and the prediction of the future
    essays on foresight and fallacy
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  McFarland & Co, Jefferson, N.C

    "Science fiction has always intrigued readers with depictions of an unforeseen future. Can the genre actually provide audiences with a glance into the world of tomorrow? This collection of fifteen international and interdisciplinary essays examines... more

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    "Science fiction has always intrigued readers with depictions of an unforeseen future. Can the genre actually provide audiences with a glance into the world of tomorrow? This collection of fifteen international and interdisciplinary essays examines the genre's predictions and breaks new ground by considering the prophetic functions of science fiction films, as well as science fiction literature"--Provided by publisher

     

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    ISBN: 9780786458417; 1283018748; 9781283018746
    Series: Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 27
    Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Ser. ; v.27
    Subjects: Science fiction; Future in literature; Science fiction films; Forecasting in literature; Science fiction -- History and criticism; Future, The, in literature; Science fiction films -- History and criticism; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (vi, 263 p)
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    pt. 1. Cosmic visionspt. 2. The practice of prophecy.

  16. A genealogy of cyborgothic
    aesthetics and ethics in the age of posthumanism
    Author: Yi, Dongshin
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey

    A Genealogy of the Cyborgothic imagines a new literary genre emerging from gothic literature and science fiction that will help to envision a cyborg-friendly, non-anthropocentric posthuman society. Dongshin Yi introduces mothering as an aesthetic and... more

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    A Genealogy of the Cyborgothic imagines a new literary genre emerging from gothic literature and science fiction that will help to envision a cyborg-friendly, non-anthropocentric posthuman society. Dongshin Yi introduces mothering as an aesthetic and ethical practice that can enable a posthumanist relationship between human and non-human beings as he examines novels like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Arrowsmith alongside philosophical and critical works by Edmund Burke, William James, and others

     

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    ISBN: 9781409400394; 1282524755; 9780754699088; 9781282524750
    Subjects: English literature; Future in literature; Literature and morals; Ethics in literature; American literature
    Scope: Online-Ressource (164 p)
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    Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Beyond "The Ruin of Representation"; 1 A Beautiful Attendant: The Rise of the Gothic Aesthetics of the Beautiful; 2 A Beautiful Monster: The Fall of the Gothic Aesthetics of the Beautiful; 3 Van Helsing's Dilemma: Science and Mill's Utilitarianism; 4 A Humanistic Science in a Pragmatic Society: Re-Reading Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith; 5 The Birth of Cyborgothic: Mothering the Cyborg in Marge Piercy's He, She and It; Works Cited; Index

  17. The uses of the future in early modern Europe
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 041599540X; 9780415995405
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    RVK Categories: HI 1161
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 12
    Subjects: English literature; French literature; Future, The, in literature; Literature and society; Renaissance
    Other subjects: Array; Array; Future in literature; Array; Renaissance
    Scope: XX, 242 S., Ill.
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    A. Wade Razzi: In pursuit of the millennia: Robert Crowley's changing concept of apocalypticism

    Richard Scholar: Montaigne's forays into the undiscovered country

    J.K. Barret: "My promise sent unto myself": futurity and the language of obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia

    Brinda Charry / "Provide for the future, and times succeeding": Walter Raleigh and the progress of time / Andrew Hiscock: Turkish futures: prophecy and the other

    Michael Harrigan: France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale: sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French representations of a colonial future in Brazil

    Nina Taunton: Planning ahead: a future for old age in dialogue of comfort, Henry IV parts one and two and All's well that ends well

    A. P. Langman: The future now: chance, time and natural divination in the thought of Francis Bacon

    Phillip John Usher: Prophetic architecture: Agrippa d'Aubign in Paris

    Peter J. Forshaw: Astrology, ritual and revolution in the works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639)

    Hugh Roberts: Mocking the future in French Renaissance mock-prognostications

    Rob Iliffe.: "Meteorologies and extravagant speculations": the future legends of early modern English natural philosophy

  18. The utopian vision of H. G. Wells
    Published: c 2009
    Publisher:  McFarland & Co, Jefferson, N.C [u.a.]

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    "This book begins with types of individuals who could create and live in ideal societies. It then discusses the state and how Wells' utopian thought requires a permanent commitment to expanding freedom. The final chapter covers death and how utopian thought can profoundly reshape the reader's understanding of position relative to current and future societies"--Provided by publisher

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0786446056; 9780786446056
    RVK Categories: HM 4755
    Subjects: Utopias in literature; Future, The, in literature; Utopias in literature; Future in literature
    Other subjects: Wells, H. G (1866-1946); Wells, H. G. 1866-1946
    Scope: VII, 204 S., 23 cm
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    The individual -- The role of the novel -- The state -- Freedom and social patterns -- The problem of death.

  19. <<Die>> Zukunftsromane von Anthony Burgess
    Published: 1985
    Publisher:  Centaurus-Verl.-Ges., Pfaffenweiler

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    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 3890850472
    RVK Categories: HN 2555
    Series: Reihe Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft ; 2
    Subjects: Future in literature; Array
    Scope: XVIII, 226 S., 21 cm
    Notes:

    Zugl.: Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 1984

  20. Archaeologies of the future :
    the desire called utopia and other science fictions /
    Published: 2005.
    Publisher:  Verso,, London [u.a.] :

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1-8446-7033-3
    RVK Categories: EC 6745 ; EC 6855
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Science fiction, American; Science fiction, English; Science fiction; Utopias in literature; Future in literature; Utopie; Literatur; Science-Fiction-Literatur
    Scope: XVI, 431 S. :, graph. Darst.
  21. Still the New World :
    American literature in a culture of creative destruction /
    Published: 1999.
    Publisher:  Harvard Univ. Press,, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] :

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  22. Visions of the third millennium :
    black science fiction novelists write the future /
    Published: 2003.
    Publisher:  Africa World Press,, Trenton, NJ [u.a.] :

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1-59221-022-8; 1-59221-023-6
    RVK Categories: HU 1821
    Edition: 1. printing
    Subjects: Schwarze. USA; African Americans in literature; African Americans; American fiction; American fiction; American fiction; Blacks in literature; Future in literature; Science fiction, American; Slavery in literature; Science-Fiction-Literatur; Schwarze; Sklaverei <Motiv>
    Scope: X, 132 S.
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  23. Shadows of the future :
    H. G. Wells, science fiction and prophecy /
    Published: 1995.
    Publisher:  Liverpool Univ. Press,, Liverpool :

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0-8156-2691-6; 0-8156-0332-0
    RVK Categories: HM 4755
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Utopianism and Communitarianism
    Subjects: Profetieën; Future in literature; Prophecies in literature; Science fiction, English; Time travel in literature; Science-Fiction-Literatur
    Other subjects: Wells, H. G <1866-1946>: Time machine; Wells, H. G <1866-1946>; Wells, H. G. (1866-1946)
    Scope: XI, 170 S.
  24. Das Fortschrittstrauma :
    vier Studien zur Pathogenese literarischer Diskurse /
    Published: 2005.
    Publisher:  Stauffenburg,, Tübingen :

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 3-86057-162-1
    RVK Categories: IG 3900 ; IE 2836 ; EC 5410
    Series: Stauffenburg-Colloquium ; 62
    Subjects: Future in literature; Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; Millennialism in literature; Französisch.; Literatur.; Fortschrittsglaube.; Kulturkritik.
    Other subjects: Verne, Jules (1828-1905.)
    Scope: 550 S.
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    Zugl.: Augsburg, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2005

  25. The plot of the future :
    utopia and dystopia in modern drama /
    Published: 1991.
    Publisher:  Univ. of Michigan Press,, Ann Arbor :

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0-472-10217-6
    RVK Categories: EC 7507
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Series: Theater: theory, text, performance
    Subjects: Futur dans la littérature; Théâtre (Genre littéraire) - Histoire et critique; Toekomst; Toneel; Utopies dans la littérature; Utopische literatuur; Theater; Drama; Future in literature; Utopias in literature; Drama; Zukunft <Motiv>
    Scope: VI, 258 S.