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When the Asteroid Hits : Earth Impacts and Extinction Events in Popular Culture by Allen A. Debus (2024, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
ISBN-101476694583
ISBN-139781476694580
eBay Product ID (ePID)13064172200
Product Key Features
Number of Pages312 Pages
Publication NameWhen the Asteroid Hits : Earth Impacts and Extinction events in Popular Culture
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
SubjectTelevision / Genres / Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror, Popular Culture, Linguistics / General, Film / Genres / Science Fiction & Fantasy
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
AuthorAllen A. Debus
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight19.4 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2024-031677
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentTable of Contents Preface: Warning from Space Introduction: What Goes Around Comes Around One. Mammoths and Comets in Popular Culture--Early Perspectives Two. On Comets: Inflicting Terror and Angst in Modernity--A Popular View Three. Target--Earth! Four. Worlds in Collision Five. Mid-Century Descent into Quackery? Six. Fossil Impact--Kentland Interlude Seven. Hammer Fall Eight. Inextricably Linked--Asteroids and Dinosaurs Enter Mainstream Nine. Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Nemesis--Death Star Days Ten. Time Travels--Reality of Instantaneity! Eleven. Mammoths, Meteorites, and Supernovae--Life on the Fringe Twelve. Megadeaths--Demonology and Fates of Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Man Epilogue Appendix: What Happened Before Could Befall Us Again! (Visualizing Asteroid Impacts and Comet Collisions) Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisThe incomprehensible notion of a very large chunk of ice or rock from outer space smashing into the Earth has only become mainstream within the past two centuries. Though early writers imagined the utterly fantastic consequences of comet collisions and speculated on the devastation they might wreak, it was not until the 1980s when scientists finally resolved that dinosaurs were extinguished by an asteroid 66 million years ago. This startling announcement captivated the media and tilted the science fiction world but in reality, history may have been punctuated repeatedly by such events. This book collects and analyzes ideas of asteroid, comet, and planetary impacts with Earth spanning two centuries, from the first realization of extinctions in fossil records to the new millennium, reflected in scores of sci-fi stories, films, and televised science documentaries. The author examines social and geopolitical fears tied to the prospect of a cosmic-borne catastrophe. Science, fiction, and speculation are artfully melded.
LC Classification NumberP96.C655D43 2024
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