Alexander C.T. Geppert (ed.), Astroculture and Technoscience, London: Routledge, 2012 (= History and Technology 28.3).

Including the following contributions:

• Alexander C.T. Geppert, Extraterrestrial Encounters: UFOs, Science and the Quest for Transcendence, 1947-1972, 335-62.
• Ibd., Rethinking the Space Age: Astroculture and Technoscience, 219-23.
• William R. Macauley, Crafting the Future: Envisioning Space Exploration in Post-war Britain, 281-309.
• Daniel Brandau, Cultivating the Cosmos: Spaceflight Thought in Imperial Germany, 225-54.

Content/Introduction: pdf

Alexander C.T. Geppert (ed.), Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination.

"This wonderful multinational and multidisciplinary collection of essays is greater than the sum of its fascinating parts. It provides a rich and coherent examination of the place of outer space in the western imagination, in its extraordinary variety. Crystalline aliens, a mysterious Siberian explosion, silicon-based life forms, Tintin, Thunderbirds, Star Trek, and Raëlians are just some of the many things which are examined in a brilliantly eclectic series of essays."