Frank Herbert's Dune is the biggest-selling science fiction story of all time; the original book and its numerous sequels have transported millions of readers into the alternate reality of the Duniverse. Dune and Philosophy raises intriguing questions about the Duniverse in ways…
My dissertation project focuses on the history of cybernetics and aesthetics as a key site for the comparative study of cultural exchange between Arabic and American cultures. I argue that the emergence of cybernetics in the post-WWII era provided an infrastructure for a synthes…
This book describes the lives and careers of ten influential writers in science fiction and fantasy, including Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Madeleine L'Engle, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others.
