Richard Bleiler
Auteur de Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror
A propos de l'auteur
Richard J. Bleiler is Humanities Reference Librarian, Babbidge Library, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) Richard J. Bleiler is a researcher in science fiction, supernatural and mystery fiction. He is not to be confused with his father, Everett F. Bleiler, an anthologist and compiler of reference works in the same fields.
Œuvres de Richard Bleiler
Reference and Research Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction (Reference Sources in the Humanities) (2004) 8 exemplaires
The Strange Case of "The Angels of Mons": Arthur Machen's World War I Story, the Insistent Believers, and His… (2015) 2 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors From the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day (1982) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 33 exemplaires
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- Nom légal
- Bleiler, Richard James
- Date de naissance
- 1959-07-11
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Professions
- reference librarian, University of Connecticut
facultly member, Department of English, University of Connecticut
bibliographer - Relations
- Bleiler, Everett F. (father)
- Organisations
- University of Connecticut
- Notice de désambigüisation
- Richard J. Bleiler is a researcher in science fiction, supernatural and mystery fiction. He is not to be confused with his father, Everett F. Bleiler, an anthologist and compiler of reference works in the same fields.
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- Œuvres
- 9
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 43
- Popularité
- #352,016
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 10
The Battle of the Swash is a pretty typical piece of The Battle of Dorking-derived future fiction: Barton has an issue he wants to stump for, he presents a dire prediction of what will happen to America if no one listens to him! Though it turns out pretty good for America, as it ends up with Canada in its possession, so there you go. But it is dead boring.
The Struggle for Empire, on the other hand, is (as far as I know*) the first example of spaceship-to-spaceship combat in literature. This is where Star Wars is born. Indeed, it seems a pretty clear lineage from Griffith's aerial combat stories (like Angel of the Revolution) to Cole's work to E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman tales, except that it's doubtful Smith could have ever read this.
The plot and characterization and themes are all thin here, to say the least, but this is a lot of blasted fun. Spaceships swooping around, fleets annihilating each other, mega-weapons. It's just completely, awesomely gigantic and delightful. Even the racism is just over-the-top you have to enjoy it. (The Earth of the future and the galaxy are of course ruled by the Anglo-Saxon Empire, whose innate superiority is completely obvious to all obverers.)
Also hilarious: the bit where the narrator tells you all good women know that if your fiancé falls in love with another women, you should just be nice and let him out of the engagement without fuss. Dump a woman who wasn't so compliant, Cole?
* There is some space combat in Serviss's Edison's Conquest of Mars (1898), but it is spaceship-to-asteroid base if I remember correctly.… (plus d'informations)