The Anticipation Science Fiction Novelists of 1950s France Stepchildren of Voltaire |
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| Author:
| Lyau, Bradford
Slusser, George |
| Editor:
| Palumbo, Donald E. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7864-5857-8 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2010 |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $78.00 |
Book Description:
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Following World War II, the Fleuve Noir publishing house published popular American genre fiction in translation for a French audience. Their imprint Anticipation specialized in science fiction, but mostly eschewed translations from English, preferring instead French work. This text examines in ideological terms eleven writers who published under the Anticipation imprint, revealing the way they criticized mid-century notions of progress while adapting and reworking American genre formats.
Following World War II, the Fleuve Noir publishing house published popular American genre fiction in translation for a French audience. Their imprint Anticipation specialized in science fiction, but mostly eschewed translations from English, preferring instead French work. This text examines in ideological terms eleven writers who published under the Anticipation imprint, revealing the way they criticized mid-century notions of progress while adapting and reworking American genre formats.