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Trip Without a Time Machine: How World War II Influenced Themes in American Science Fiction Literature

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Xinlin Cao

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In postwar-World War II America, works by prominent science fiction creators of the time, from John W. Campbell to Kurt Vonnegut, included topics directly related to the war. Tensions from military and political events influenced the appearance of thematic depictions of negative attitudes about the war.

Keywords

Science Fiction
World War II
dystopian
Kurt Vonnegut
Fahrenheit 451

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