Westfahl,
Gary. Science Fiction,
Children's Literature, and Popular Culture: Coming of Age in Fantasyland.
Greenwood Press, 2000. 176pp. ISBN 0313308470 (hc).
- Acknowledgments ... ix
- Introduction ... xi
- How Charlie Made Children Hate Him: Fantasy and Reality in Stories for Small Children ... 1
- The Three Lives of Superman--And Everybody Else ... 13
- Mystery of the Amateur Detectives: The Early Days of the Hardy Boys ... 19
- Giving Horation Alger Goosebumps, Or, Hardy Boys to Hapless Boys: The Changing Ethos of Juvenile Series Fiction ... 37
- From the Back of the Head to Beyond the Moon: The Novel and Film This Island Earth ... 49
- Opposing War, Exploiting War: The Troubled Pacifism of Star Trek ... 69
- Even Better than the Real Thing: Advertising, Music Videos, Postmodernism, and (Eventually) Science Fiction ... 79
- Legends of the Fall: Going Not Particularly Far Behind the Music ... 93
- Hollywood Strikes a Pose: Seven Tales of Triumph, Treachery, and Travail in Old Tinseltown ... 107
- In Defense of Stone Tablets: Isaac Asimov Explians Why Science Fiction Is Skeptical about "New Information Technologies" ... 121
- Partial Derivatives: Popular Misrepresentations of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine ... 129
- Bibliography ... 143
- Index ... 149