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Journal articles on the topic "Space flight – Juvenile fiction"
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Engelhardt, Nina. "“Real Flight and Dreams of Flight Go Together”: High Technology and Imaginary Heights in Early Modern and Postmodern Science Fiction." Space and Culture 23, no. 4 (December 25, 2018): 382–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331218819714.
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This article examines how science fiction literature illustrates that exploring the “space above” and journeys toward it necessitates engaging with different types of knowledge, not least scientific-technological and imaginative ones. Scholarship in geography and urban and social studies has recently experienced what has been called a “vertical turn,” that is, a growing attention to the third dimension of space, and researchers call for more interdisciplinary experiments and commitment. This article argues that fictional literature is a valuable source of inquiry and, moreover, that it is precisely science fiction itself that illustrates the need to draw on various types of knowledge in order to explore issues of verticality and the space above. It examines an early modern text from a period before technological ascent into space became possible and a 20th-century novel set at the beginning of the rocket age: Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone; or a Voyage Thither, written sometime after 1628 and published in 1638, and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973). Both texts illustrate that scientific-technological and imaginative investigations of “the above” are inseparable and emphasize the role of the imagination in fictional as well as in technological ascents. Moreover, in these texts, travelling into the space above involves complex ethical and moral dimensions. Exploring these in relation to the inseparability of scientific-technological and imaginative investigations, the analysis of the science fiction texts also develops the ethical and cognitive value of making scholarly analysis of verticality an interdisciplinary endeavor.
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Rouleau, Brian. "Childhood's Imperial Imagination: Edward Stratemeyer's Fiction Factory and the Valorization of American Empire." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 7, no. 4 (October 2008): 479–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537781400000876.
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Numerous studies have appeared in recent years that deal with the reasons and rationalizations that accompanied America's overseas acquisitions in 1898. This article uses juvenile series fiction to examine how the nation's youth—boys in particular—became targets of imperial boosterism. In the pages of adventure novels set against the backdrop of American interventions in the Caribbean and the Philippines, Edward Stratemeyer, the most successful author and publisher of youth series fiction, and other less well-known juvenile fiction producers offered sensationalistic dramas that advocated a racialist, expansionistic foreign policy. Stratemeyer and others offered American boys an imaginative space as participants in and future stewards of national triumph. Young readers, the article argues further, became active participants in their own politicization. An examination of the voluminous fan mail sent to series fiction authors by their juvenile admirers reveals boys' willingness, even eagerness, to participate in the ascendancy of the United States.
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Turkina, Olesya. "Dreams of the Earth and Sky." Leonardo 54, no. 1 (February 2021): 133–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01992.
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This article examines how artists, writers and filmmakers inspired by scientific ideas imagined space flight and how engineers and scientists were inspired by these fantasies. The first section discusses Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's impact on images of interplanetary flight and the promotion of outer space in the early twentieth century. The second considers the emergence of popular science films about space as conceived by director Pavel Klushantsev as well as the role of artist Yuri Shvets in the Soviet space epic and the impact of technological modeling on science fiction in art. Finally, the author surveys the “space work” of artists-cum-inventors Bulat Galeyev and Vyacheslav Koleychuk.
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Muradian, Gaiane, and Anna Karapetyan. "On Some Properties of Science Fiction Dystopian Narrative." Armenian Folia Anglistika 13, no. 1-2 (17) (October 16, 2017): 7–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2017.13.1-2.007.
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Dystopia is a narrative form of fiction in general and of science fiction in particular. Using elements of science fiction discourse like time travel, space flight, advanced technologies, virtual reality, genetic engineering, etc. – dystopian narrative depicts future fictive societies presenting in peculiar prose style a future in which humanity has fallen into destruction, ruin and decline, in which human life and nature are wildly abused, exploited and destroyed, in which a totalitarian, highly centralized, and, therefore, oppressive social organization sacrifices individual expression, freedom of choice and idiosyncrasy of the society and its members. It is such critical and creative reflections of science fiction dystopian narrative that are focused on in the present case study with the aim of bringing out certain properties in terms of narrative types and devices, figurative discourse and cognitive notions through which science fiction dystopia expresses and conveys its overarching message, i.e. the warning to stop before it is too late to the reader.
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Flood, Victoria. "Johannes Kepler's 'Somnium' and the Witches' Night Flight." Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, no. 8 (December 31, 2021): 74–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/interfaces-08-05.
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This article explores the uses of the witches' night-flight in Johannes Kelper’s Somnium (1634). It situates Kepler's engagement with the motif in the broader context of debates on the reality of the night-flight among early modern witch theorists, including Kepler's contemporary and friend, Georg Gödelmann. It proposes that Kepler understood the night-flight as a phenomenon with a disputed reality status and, as such, an appropriate imaginative space through which to pursue the thought experiment of lunar travel. Consequently, it suggests that we ought not to dismiss Kepler's engagements with the figure of the witch as a vestigial medieval superstition (itself a problematic contention), but rather an interest characteristic of his age, and that we might find in the speculations of witch-theory the very beginnings of science fiction.
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Volland, Nicolai. "Comment on “Let's Go to the Moon”." Journal of Asian Studies 73, no. 2 (February 19, 2014): 353–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911813002416.
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Things were getting busy on the major flight corridors between the Earth and Mars, or so the casual observer of socialist bloc science fiction from the 1950s might come to believe. While there are no reports of intergalactic traffic jams, Mars was becoming a destination of choice in science fiction from both sides of the Iron Curtain. In her fascinating article, Dafna Zur details the exploits of an international exploratory mission to the red planet, consisting of children from a dozen nations, including North Korea, China, and the Soviet Union. It remains unknown whether the explorers from Kim Tong Sŏp's serialized novel Youth Space Expedition Team met any other socialist space travelers on their way to Mars. But they could have very well run into spaceship #1, commanded by Zhenzhen, the protagonist of Zheng Wenguang's (1929–2003) “Cong diqiu dao huoxing” (From the Earth to Mars) (Zheng 1954a).
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Li, Xiaokang, Yan Zhou, and Kongming Wu. "Biological Characteristics and Energy Metabolism of Migrating Insects." Metabolites 13, no. 3 (March 17, 2023): 439. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/metabo13030439.
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Through long-distance migration, insects not only find suitable breeding locations and increase the survival space and opportunities for the population but also facilitate large-scale material, energy, and information flow between regions, which is important in maintaining the stability of agricultural ecosystems and wider natural ecosystems. In this study, we summarize the changes in biological characteristics such as morphology, ovarian development, reproduction, and flight capability during the seasonal migration of the insect. In consideration of global research work, the interaction between flight and reproduction, the influence and regulation of the insulin-like and juvenile hormone on the flight and reproductive activities of migrating insects, and the types of energy substances, metabolic processes, and hormone regulation processes during insect flight are elaborated. This systematic review of the latest advances in the studies on insect migration biology and energy metabolism will help readers to better understand the biological behavior and regulation mechanism of the energy metabolism of insect migration.
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Tischler, M. E., E. J. Henriksen, K. A. Munoz, C. S. Stump, C. R. Woodman, and C. R. Kirby. "Spaceflight on STS-48 and earth-based unweighting produce similar effects on skeletal muscle of young rats." Journal of Applied Physiology 74, no. 5 (May 1, 1993): 2161–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jappl.1993.74.5.2161.
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Our knowledge of the effects of unweighting on skeletal muscle of juvenile rapidly growing rats has been obtained entirely by using hindlimb-suspension models. No spaceflight data on juvenile animals are available to validate these models of simulated weightlessness. Therefore, eight 26-day-old female Sprague-Dawley albino rats were exposed to 5.4 days of weightlessness aboard the space shuttle Discovery (mission STS-48, September 1991). An asynchronous ground control experiment mimicked the flight cage condition, ambient shuttle temperatures, and mission duration for a second group of rats. A third group of animals underwent hindlimb suspension for 5.4 days at ambient temperatures. Although all groups consumed food at a similar rate, flight animals gained a greater percentage of body mass per day (P < 0.05). Mass and protein data showed weight-bearing hindlimb muscles were most affected, with atrophy of the soleus and reduced growth of the plantaris and gastrocnemius in both the flight and suspended animals. In contrast, the non-weight-bearing extensor digitorum longus and tibialis anterior muscles grew normally. Earlier suspension studies showed that the soleus develops an increased sensitivity to insulin during unweighting atrophy, particularly for the uptake of 2-[1,2–3H]deoxyglucose. Therefore, this characteristic was studied in isolated muscles within 2 h after cessation of spaceflight or suspension. Insulin increased uptake 2.5- and 2.7-fold in soleus of flight and suspended animals, respectively, whereas it increased only 1.6-fold in control animals. In contrast, the effect of insulin was similar among the three groups for the extensor digitorum longus, which provides a control for potential systemic differences in the animals.
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Osborne, Catherine R. "From Sputnik to Spaceship Earth: American Catholics and the Space Age." Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 25, no. 02 (2015): 218–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rac.2015.25.2.218.
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Abstract This essay considers American Catholics who, from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, reflected seriously on the religious significance of technology in general, and space science in particular. American Catholics, while no more immune from the belief that space science would create fundamental changes in human life than their Protestant, Jewish, and secular counterparts, nevertheless sought to understand the Space Age in their own distinctive terms. Catholic discussion of these issues revolved around the contributions of two theologians. From the earliest moments of the Space Age, Thomas Aquinas provided a justification for the work of Catholic scientists and astronauts within a Cold War framework. However, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's cosmic vision helped American Catholics integrate feelings of wonder and hope with darkly realistic fears about the military consequences of the space race. Thomas and Teilhard, fundamentally optimists, helped Catholics elaborate a vision of a way forward through the very real threats Americans confronted in the “long 1960s,” a vision they developed in books, articles, and speeches, but also in art, liturgy, and fiction. Ultimately, however, both extreme hopes about cosmic unification and extreme fears about total annihilation modulated, and like their fellow Americans interested in space flight during the 1960s, American Catholics turned in the early 1970s to a renewed focus on the Earth.
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Svanidze, Natalia. "Literary Reflections of Georgian Authors on the 2008 August War." Kadmos 11 (2019): 86–126. http://dx.doi.org/10.32859/kadmos/11/86-126.
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The article is focused on post-Soviet Georgian-Russian relations as reflected in Georgian fiction and essays, as well as on gender-related problems in literary texts created after the 2008 Russian-Georgian war. Keeping in mind that in the pre-Soviet period, Georgian literature was the main space for anti-colonial discourse, it seems logical that at the time of national protests against Russia following the 2008 events, Georgian literature of the Colonial Period was concentrating on topical issues, as a way of preparing the nation for a new reality, and fulfilling its mission of cultural reorientation. I apply post-colonial theory to conduct an analysis of the cultural turn occurring in post-Soviet Georgia, by examining a number of mental, political, and social problems, as well as ethnic conflicts within the country, as reflected in Georgian fiction and non-fiction. The post-Soviet/post-colonial goals and challenges for Georgian literature, as shown in the study, are related to several significant issues: rethinking the experience of Russian domination in the country; establishing a new understanding of Georgian national identity; rethinking Soviet stereotypes; detaching from the mentality of the subaltern; detaching from the status of postcolonial/post-Soviet nation, and establishing itself as a fully functioning society. This article discusses the present milieu which is highlighted by a clear division in the national psyche into pre-war (before 2008) and post-war (after 2008) social and political tendencies. My aim is to show how literary reflection on this conflict can contribute to the understanding of the social and political situation. I will discuss the following literary texts, inspired by the 2008 August war: Fiction – O. Chiladze “Clouds”; D.-D.Gogibedashvili “Gardens”; D. Turashvili “Once Upon a Time”; G. Megrelishvili “Irrata.ru”; T. Melashvili “Counting Out”; Z. Burchuladze “Adibas”; B. Janikashvili “War Play”; L. Bughadze “Literature Express”; D. Barbakadze “On Perkhuli Dance”; Short Fiction: T. Sukhitashvili “In the Back”; K. Jandieri “Globalization”; T. Pkhakadze Kitchen Gardening in the Conflict Zone”; A. Kordzaia-Samadashvili “They Killed Me, Ma”; G. Chqvanava “Toreadors”; Z. Odilavadze “Return Flight – Tbilisi – Stockholm. 2000-2020”.
Books on the topic "Space flight – Juvenile fiction"
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Orme, David. Space games. Minneapolis: Stone Arch Books, 2007.
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Orme, David. Space Games. Mankato: Stone Arch Books, 2006.
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Clark, Catherine. Lost in space: A novelization. New York: Scholastic, 1998.
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Akiva, Goldsman, ed. Lost in space. New York: Scholastic, 1998.
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Atkinson, Stuart. Journey into space. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Viking Kestrel, 1988.
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ill, Duval Jonathan, ed. Journey into space. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Viking Kestrel, 1988.
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Ward, Nick. Astro Gran. London: Meadowside Children's, 2006.
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Watson, Christopher. Shooting stars. New York: E-reads, 2002.
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Bush, Gary R. Lost in space: The flight of Apollo 13. Minneapolis: Stone Arch Books, 2009.
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Coffelt, Nancy. Dogs in space: The great space doghouse. [Portland, OR: Flying Rhinocerous, 2000.
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Ganser, Alexandra. "Going Nowhere: Oceanic Im/Mobilities in North American Refugee Fiction." In Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture, 211–34. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91275-8_11.
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AbstractIn philosophy and theory, the terms flight and territorialization are tightly connected to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. Through “lines of flight”—unpredictable routes defying spatial control—they conceptualize the breakup of a hegemonic spatial semantics through the mobility of the nomad. These lines make the paths of “deterritorialization,” contravening normative spatial structures (“striated” space) and producing “smooth space” that escapes structuration and control. Postcolonial critics such as Gayatri Spivak have held Deleuzian philosophy accountable for reaffirming a universal (white male) subject, but rarely debate lines of flight and deterritorialization, which appear somewhat romantic if applied to refugees subjected to involuntarily deterritorialization. In my essay, I ask how literature can perform the work of a conceptual corrective to such blind spots by reading Edwidge Danticat’s 1991 short story “Children of the Sea” and the novel Dogs at the Perimeter by the Chinese-Malaysian Canadian Madeleine Thien (2011). Danticat’s story focuses on the Haitian “boat people” that attempted to reach Florida shores in the 1980s and 1990s, while Thien examines the Cambodian genocide and its consequences for the children that came to Canada as refugees. Both texts, I argue, articulate what Achille Mbembe has called the necropolitics of genocide and demographic control and perform a grueling critique of the necropolitical structures that continue to produce transoceanic death.
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Onion, Rebecca. "Space Cadets and Rocket Boys." In Innocent Experiments. University of North Carolina Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469629476.003.0005.
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After World War II, science-fiction authors found lucrative side gigs in writing fiction for young people. Before “young adult” books were a fixed category, authors like Robert Heinlein wrote stories about space for middle-grade readers, most of whom were male. This chapter looks at Heinlein’s juvenile fiction published by Scribner’s, and shows how his work reinforced a vision of scientific masculinity.
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Brokaw, David J. "Cold War Space and Technology." In Monsters on Maple Street, 79–108. University Press of Kentucky, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813197845.003.0004.
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This chapter focuses on America's space program and pursuit of technological supremacy. The episode, “I Shot an Arrow into the Air,” serves as a jumping off point to discuss contemporaneous critiques of manned space flight and the space race. Amitai Etzioni's contemporaneous book, Moon-Doggle, Gil Scott-Heron's “Whitey on the Moon,” and Polykarp Kusch's critiques are juxtaposed with science fiction magazines and Disney television specials that aired throughout the 1950s and 60s. “Brain Center at Whipple's” illustrates the costs of automation without compensating workers or considering the impact on the labor force. Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano, Michael Harrington's The Other America, and Congressional hearings with the UAW and Ford Motor Company provide meaningful historical context. The Detroit Riots of 1967 provide an enduring and troubling legacy of these postwar developments.
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Barr, Marleen S. "Ecological Plant-Based Urban Planning Makes Eleanor Cameron’s The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet Real." In Fantastic Cities, 258–72. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496836625.003.0016.
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Marleen S. Barr’s piece looks at contemporary urban practices prefigured by Eleanor Campbell’s The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, a 1954 children’s science fiction novel. Claiming that Campbell’s most important message was not that space flight was possible, but that “organic matter matters,” Barr surveys contemporary art projects, architecture, and even packaging production to highlight Campbell’s impact on the present moment. Barr thus demonstrates how fantastic futures have infiltrated everyday urban realities.
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Withers, Jeremy. "Introduction." In Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles, 1–24. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621754.003.0001.
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For the May 1967 issue of Analog, the influential science fiction magazine that began under the name Astounding Stories of Super-Science in 1930, editor (and sometimes author) John W. Campbell, Jr. composed an editorial titled ‘The Safest Form of Transportation.’ Campbell wrote the editorial, he tells us, in the days immediately following the Apollo 1 disaster, an incident that occurred on January 27, 1967, in which a cabin fire broke out in a space module as it sat on the ground during a launch rehearsal test. Three NASA astronauts were trapped inside the module and killed by the fire. Campbell, concerned that this disaster might halt subsequent development of human space flight programs, opens his editorial by brazenly declaring: ‘As of January 30th, 1967 travel by spaceship retains its unblemished record as the safest known form of travel; in hundreds of millions of miles of travel, not one person has been killed or injured.’...
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Eller, Jonathan R. "Beyond Eden." In Bradbury Beyond Apollo, 95–100. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043413.003.0014.
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Chapter 13 opens with commentary on Bradbury’s 1980 Omni magazine article “Beyond Eden,” an essay commissioned to support the projected Space Shuttle program. In this essay, Bradbury defined his Space-Age Trinity—God, humanity, and the machines of interplanetary flight. The chapter goes on to document Bradbury’s April 1980 interviews with friends who had achieved prominence in the new generation of science fiction films: producers Gary Kurtz and Gene Roddenberry, director Irvin Kershner, and special effects artist John Dykstra. Bradbury never completed the article on the future of science fiction films that these interviews were intended to support, but he did articulate a maturing sense of Toynbee’s “challenge and response” as a way to focus the kind of human growth required to reach other worlds.