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Imagining Outer Space

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    Chapter 1 European Astrofuturism, Cosmic Provincialism: Historicizing the Space Age
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    Chapter 2 Space, Time and Aliens: The Role of Imagination in Outer Space
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    Chapter 3 Heaven on Earth: Tunguska, 30 June 1908
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    Chapter 4 Imagining Inorganic Life: Crystalline Aliens in Science and Fiction
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    Chapter 5 Projecting Landscapes of the Human Mind onto Another World: Changing Faces of an Imaginary Mars
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    Chapter 6 ‘Smash the Myth of the Fascist Rocket Baron’: East German Attacks on Wernher von Braun in the 1960s
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    Chapter 7 Transcendence of Gravity: Arthur C. Clarke and the Apocalypse of Weightlessness
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    Chapter 8 Per Media Ad Astra? Outer Space in West Germany’s Media, 1957–87
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    Chapter 9 Balloons on the Moon: Visions of Space Travel in Francophone Comic Strips
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    Chapter 10 A Stumble in the Dark: Contextualizing Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s Space: 1999
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    Chapter 11 Life as We Don’t Yet Know It: An Anthropologist’s First Contact with the Science of ‘Weird Life’
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    Chapter 12 A Ghost in the Machine: How Sociology Tried to Explain (Away) American Flying Saucers and European Ghost Rockets, 1946–47
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    Chapter 13 Seeing the Future of Civilization in the Skies of Quarouble: UFO Encounters and the Problem of Empire in Postwar France
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    Chapter 14 Self-Reproducing Automata and the Impossibility of SETI
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    Chapter 15 Inscribing Scientific Knowledge: Interstellar Communication, NASA’s Pioneer Plaque and Contact with Cultures of the Imagination, 1971–72
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    Chapter 16 Alien Spotting: Damien Hirst’s Beagle 2 Mars Lander Calibration Target and the Exploitation of Outer Space
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    Chapter 17 Look Up! Art in the Age of Orbitization
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Chapter title
Self-Reproducing Automata and the Impossibility of SETI
Chapter number 14
Book title
Imagining Outer Space
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, London, January 2018
DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-95339-4_14
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-95338-7, 978-1-349-95339-4
Authors

Gonzalo Munévar, Munévar, Gonzalo