Medieval Science Fiction

Essays looking at the idea of "science fiction" as it can be applied to medieval texts, and the synergies between the genres.

List of contents

Medieval Science Fiction: An Impossible Fantasy?
Is Beowulf Science Fiction?
The Future is a Foreign Country: The Legend of the Seven Sleepers and the Anglo-Saxon Sense of the Past
Untimely Travel: Living and Dying in Connie Willis's Doomsday Book
"On Second Thought, Let's Not Go to Camelot... `Tis a Silly Space": Star Trek and the Inconsequence of SF Medievalism
"Those two green children which Nubrigensis speaks of in his time, that fell from heavem", or the Origins of Science Fiction
Aliens and Anglo-Saxons in Edwin Morgan's "The First Men on Mercury"
The Riddle of Medieval Technology
Dreams of War, Dreams of Dragons' Fire: Conrad Kyeser's Bellefortis
Courtly Love on Mars: E.R. Burroughs and the Medieval Lineage of Planetary Romance
The Medieval Dying Earth
Catapunk: Toward a Medieval Aesthetic of Science Fiction
Medieval Cosmology and World Building
Discovering Eifelheim

About the author

Carl Kears, James Paz

Product details

• Authors: Carl Kears
• Assisted by: Carl Kears (Editor), Carl (Person) Kears (Editor), James Paz (Editor)
• Publisher: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.2016
• EAN: 9780953983889
• ISBN: 978-0-9539838-8-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Weight: 882 g
• Illustrations: 9 colour illus.
• Series: Kings College London Medieval; Kings College London Medieval Studies (KCLMS)
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies