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This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.

Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories o

In 1959, C. P. Snow lamented the presence of what he called the 'two cultures': the apparently unbridgeable chasm of understanding and knowledge between modern

This book explores the historical relations between science and religion and discusses contemporary issues with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biolog