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Unique among the throng of books on the ever-popular TV series, a scholarly study places the series in the context of literary and social history, anthropology, religion, and myth, exploring the significance and lineage of its stories. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.
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Thomas Richards is a former associate professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of two works of nonfiction as well as a novel, Zero Tolerance. A Guggenheim fellow, he lives in California.
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rek" has no equal. Easily the most cerebral show on television, it brought a literary sophistication to the raw material of science fiction and confounded all the formulas of television. By taking classic stories and putting them in strange new contexts "Star Trek" became a modern Odyssey in outer space, a set of stories so basic to our culture that they can be told over and over again.
But while legions have devoured score of books on every aspect of the series, no book has ever dared to explore what "Star Trek" means-where it comes from, why it is so popular, how it creates a coherent world-until now. The Meaning of Star Trek captures the essence of this timeless television masterpiece by examining it in the context of literary history, social history, anthropology, myth, and religion-how it grew from a science fiction tradition; how the history of the federation reconfigures our own; how it handles the concept of first contact with ot
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