Andrew M. Butler
Autor(a) de Terry Pratchett: Guilty Of Literature
About the Author
Andrew M. Butler is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is the author and editor of many books, including (as co editor) The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (Routledge, 2009) and Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (Routledge, 2009).
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Obras por Andrew M. Butler
Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies) (2012) 11 exemplares
Fundamentals of the USA Patriot Act 1 exemplar
Robert Sheckley; squaring the circle 1 exemplar
Associated Works
2001: An Odyssey in Words: Celebrating the Centenary of Arthur C. Clarke's Birth (2018) — Contribuidor — 53 exemplares
The Popular and the Canonical: Debating Twentieth-Century Literature 1940-2000 (2005) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Science Fiction across Media (SF Storyworlds: Critical Studies in Science Fiction) (2013) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 20th Century
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 15
- Also by
- 7
- Membros
- 557
- Popularidade
- #44,822
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 5
- ISBN
- 39
- Línguas
- 1
There were matters of fact in one of the papers that I dispute - fairly straightforward ones, at that - but otherwise I found this book enlightening and indeed, it made me want to re-read MacLeod's Fall Revolution novels, even though I only read them within the last ten years.
Be aware that anyone reading this will not only gain insights into Ken MacLeod's first seven novels, but they will also be given something of a crash course in radical politics, mainly of the British Left, but also of libertarian thought as this is a secondary strand in MacLeod's writings. These themes have continued in his writing since the early 2000s, although never in an uncritical way. Perhaps one of the most interesting things about the novels of Ken MacLeod is that just when you think he has exhausted all the possibilities that radical Leftist politics has to offer, there will be a new book that at least touches upon, if not relies upon, another aspect of socialist thought or experience. This book will prepare readers for the depth of MacLeod's political engagement in all of his works, based on the analysis of the first seven novels.… (mais)