What if everything you knew about your past was wrong? What if who you thought you were was all a lie? In CHASING GHOSTS Dagger comes face-to-face with his past in the form of an intruder who first wants to hire him, then tries to kill him. What prompted this response? The answer lies in a series of numbers which triggers Dagger's memory and leads him to a remote city...one mile below the surface, technologically advanced yet abandoned. Or is it?
Product Description: Including studies of leading science fiction and cyberpunk texts, Damier Broderick considers the characteristic writing, marketing and reception of sci-fi which distinguish it as a genre.
Added by: dovesnake | Karma: 1384.51 | Fiction literature | 25 August 2008
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Noted critics and authors write on various aspects of science fiction
as a genre. Kingslay Amis identifies the roots of modern sci-fi in
Shakespeare; Stanislaw Lem discusses some of the logical implications
of time travel stories as employed by Bradbury, Heinlein, Frederic
Brown and others; while CS Lewis considers the various categories of
science fiction & Darko Suvin presents a comprehensive discussion
of how sci-fi works.
