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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Past Is an Undiscovered Country
Part I: SF’s Rosy-Fingered Dawn
1. The Lunar Setting of Johannes Kepler’s Somnium, Science Fiction’s Missing Link
2. Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
3. Virgil in Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth
4. Mr. Lucian in Suburbia: Links Between the True History and The First Men in the Moon
Part II: SF “Classics”
5. A Complex Oedipus: The Tragedy of Edward Morbius
6. Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz, the Great Year, and the Ages of Man
7. Time and Self-Referentiality in the Iliad and Frank Herbert’s Dune
8. Disability as Rhetorical Trope in Classical Myth and Blade Runner
Part III: Classics in Space
9. Moral and Mortal in Star Trek: The Original Series
10. Hybrids and Homecomings in the Odyssey and Alien Resurrection
11. Classical Antiquity and Western Identity in Battlestar Galactica
Part IV: Ancient Classics for a Future Generation?
12. Revised Iliadic Epiphanies in Dan Simmons’s Ilium
13. Refiguring the Roman Empire in The Hunger Games Trilogy
14. Jonathan Hickman’s Pax Romana and the End of Antiquity
Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing
Works Cited
Index
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