Before I post the rest of my thesis, for further study, here is the bibliography from my work, for those of you interested in the source work which I used.

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———. Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

———. The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Fiction: Fiction as Social Criticism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.

———. The Post-Utopian Imagination: American Culture in the Long 1950s. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

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———. Kurt Vonnegut’s Crusade: Or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006.

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———. “War of the Worlds.” Lux Radio Theatre. CBS, February 8, 1955.

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———. The Amzing Colossal Man. Malibu Productions, 1957.

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