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East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country's most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party's official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East German communism. This study is an introduction to East German science fiction. The book begins with a chapter on German science fiction before 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the country (1949-1990) and outlines key topics essential to understanding the genre: popular literature, socialist realism, censorship, fandom, and international science fiction. An in-depth discussion addresses notions of high and low literature, elements of the fantastic and utopia as critical narrative strategies, ideology and realism in East German literature, gender, and the relation between literature and science. Through a close textual analysis of three science fiction novels, the author expands East German literary history to include science fiction as a valuable source for developing a multi-faceted understanding of the country's short history. Finally, an epilogue notes new titles and developments since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Moon exerted a powerful influence on ancient intellectual history, as a playground for the scientific imagination. This book explores the history of the Moon in the Greco-Roman imaginary from Homer to Lucian, with special focus on those accounts of the Moon, its attributes, and its 'inhabitants' given by ancient philosophers, natural scientists and imaginative writers including Pythagoreans, Plato and the Old Academy, Varro, Plutarch and Lucian. ní Mheallaigh shows how the Moon's enigmatic presence made it a key site for thinking about the gaze (erotic, philosophical and scientific) and the relation between appearance and reality. It was also a site for hoax in antiquity as well as today. Central issues explored include the view from elsewhere (selēnoskopia), the relation of science and fiction, the interaction between the beginnings of science in the classical polis and the imperial period, and the limits of knowledge itself.

Broadside describing a proposed newspaper publication in Norwich, Vermont, dated 30 January 1846. ; THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY REFORMER Devoted to the support of truly Republican Principles- of a well disciplined Militia -of an American System of Education, and of sound Literature and Science. The Public is respectfully informed that it is proposed to publish a paper at Norwich, State of Vermont, under the above name, to be conducted by an association of gentlemen, on the following general plan, tovvit; 1st. THE POLITICAL DEPARTMENT. This Department will be devoted to advocating and sustaining all such measures as in their practical operations will promote the interest and welfare of the great body of the people-and oppose all those of a contrary character. It , will be open for the free and decorous discussion of all subjects involving the interest of the people, and the welfare of our republican institutions. 2nd. THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT. This Department will be under the control of Capt. ALDEN PARTRIDGE, and will be devoted to sustaining a well organized, and well disciplined militia, as the Constitutional defence of the country, and to the general dissemination of correct military information amongst the great body of the people. It will also contain original dissertations on all the branches pf Military Science and practical.military duty-whether in garrison, camp or active service, illustrated by descriptions of the most celebrated battles, sieges and other military operations, both of ancient and modern times* It will, in fine, embrace all the information necessary to enable officers, non-commissioned officers and privates, to dia-eharge their respective duties correctly in time of war as well as in time of peace. 3d. THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Will be devoted to the general dissemination of useful knowledge, and to the advocating of such systems of Education as are most practically useful, and at the same time, most in accordance with the civil and political institutions of the country. 4th. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE AND SCIENCE, Selections will be made from the most approved authors, whilst a due proportion of original articles will alsa appear. The latest foreign news will also find a place in the Reformer. The great object will be to make the proposed paper useful and interesting to the great body of our citizens, with-out distinction of party names. The paper will be published weekly, and handsomely printed on good paper, super-royal size, at the moderate price of One Dollar and twenty-five cents IN ADVANCE-or One Dollar and fifty cents at the expiration of six months ; and One Dollar seventy-five cents at the end of the year. Should there be sufficient encouragement, the first number will be issued the latter part of April next-or the early part of May. All who have been educated at Norwich or Middletown, or at any other similar Institutions, and all officers of the .volunteers and militia, are requested to act as agents in procuring subscribers. NOTE.-All agents are requested to make a return of a list of their subscribers to Capt. A. PARTRIDGE.,, at Nor-wich, Vermont, by the2Oth of April. January 30, 1846.

Greg Garrard, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies Professor in the Department of English at UBC Okanagan, explores cultural reactions to science through literature and the ramifications of politicizing science. This podcast was created by the UBC Okanagan Library in contribution to Science Literacy Week - http://scienceliteracy.ca/ ; Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan) ; Library, UBC ; Critical Studies, Department of (Okanagan) ; Unreviewed ; Faculty ; Other