Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-370) and index.
Contents:
The lunar setting of Johannes Kepler's Somnium, science fiction's missing link / Dean Swinford -- Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Jesse Weiner -- Virgil in Jules Verne's Journey to the center of the earth / Benjamin Eldon Stevens -- Mr. Lucian in suburbia: links between the True history and the First men in the moon / Antony Keen -- A complex Oedipus: the tragedy of Edward Morbius / Gregory S. Bucher -- Walter M. Miller, jr.'s A canticle for Leibowitz, the great year, and the ages of man / Erik Grayson -- Time and self-referentiality in The Iliad and Frank Herbert's Dune / Joel P. Christensen -- Disability as rhetorical trope in classical myth and Blade runner / Rebecca Raphael -- Moral and mortal in Star trek: the original series / George Kovacs -- Hybrids and homecomings in The odyssey and Alien resurrection / Brett M. Rogers -- Classical antiquity and western identity in Battlestar Galactica / Vincent Tomasso -- Revised Iliadic epiphanies in Dan Simmons' Ilium / Gaël Grobéty -- Refiguring the Roman Empire in The hunger games trilogy / Marian Makins -- Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and the end of antiquity / C.W. Marshall.
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