Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction

Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction
Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895–1984  
Author(s) Paul Brians
Country United States
Language English
Subject(s) Fiction
Nuclear warfare
Bibliography
Science fiction
Publisher Kent State University Press
Publication date 1987
Media type Book
Pages 398
ISBN 0-87338-335-4
OCLC Number 13581546
Dewey Decimal 016.823/91/080358 19
LC Classification Z5917.N83 B74 1987 PN3352.N83

Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895–1984 was written by Paul Brians and published in 1987. This comprehensive study covers Nuclear holocaust fiction published in English-language works between 1895 and 1984. Brians notes that 1895 marked the first appearance of an atomic weapon in fiction; Robert Cromie's Crack of Doom.[1] The latter date marks the conclusion of this study's time span.

Brians' work examines only fiction actually depicting nuclear war and its aftermath. He does not include works of "future holocaust" where the triggering incident is not fully explained in the work. The included bibliography covers over 800 items, including novels, stories, and films from the post-holocaust genre. The included titles are arranged by author & include a brief synopsis of each work.[2] The author has provided an online version of the published work, complete with updated sources.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Boyer, Paul; Brians, Paul (January 1989). "Review: Nuclear holocausts: atomic war in fiction, 1895-1984". Technology and culture 30 (1): 131–133. doi:10.2307/3105439. ISSN 0040-165X. JSTOR 3105439. 
  2. ^ McIntire, Alexander H. (March 1989). "Glances into the nuclear abyss". Science Fiction Studies 16 (1): 110–113. ISSN 0091-7729. "Brians provides a treasure trove: 250 pages of extensively annotated bibliography, arranged by author’s surname, and consisting of all the works mentioned in the narrative and hundreds more. This bibliography of 800 entries, supplemented by full title and subject indexes, is reason enough to make Holocausts a part of any SF scholar’s personal reference library." 
  3. ^ Brians, Paul (2007). "Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction". http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/nuclear/. Retrieved 2007-03-27. 

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