This is only a partial bibliography for the moment, listing works that I cite directly in the text of these pages.
Literary Science Fiction and Scientific Romance
Ballard, J. G. (1962/ 1999) The Drowned World. London: Victor Gollancz.
Bradbury, Ray (1950) "There Will Come Soft Rains" in The Vintage Bradbury (1965). New York: Vintage.
Christopher, John (1967) The White Mountains. New York: Macmillan.
Hoban, Russell (1980) Riddley Walker: A Novel. New York: Summit Books.
Mitchell, J. A. (1892) The Last American: A Fragment From the Journal of Khan-Li, Prince of Dimph-Yoo-Chuk and Admiral in the Persian Navy. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company.
Macaulay, David (1979) Motel of Mysteries. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Mercier, Louis Sebastien (1795/ 1973) Memoirs of the Year 2500, New York: Sentry.
Muddersnook, Blyde (1911) "When the Zealander Comes", in Strand Magazine, September 1911.
{NB. 'Muddersnook' is, of course, a pseudonym!}
Sutphen, Van Tassel (1975) The Doomsman, with a new introd. by Thomas D. Clareson. Boston: Gregg Press (originally published 1906 by Harper, New York).
Wright, Ronald (1997) A Scientific Romance: A Novel. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada.
SF Criticism
Bruno, Giuliana (1990) "Ramble City: Postmodernism and Blade Runner" in Kuhn, Annette ed. (1990) Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema. London and New York: Verso.
Rabkin, Eric S., Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (eds.) (1983) The End of the World. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinios University Press.
Sobchack, Vivian Carol (1980) The Limits of Infinity: The American Science Fiction Film. South Brunswick and New York: AS Barnes and Co.
Sontag, Susan (1965) "The Imagination of Disaster" in Amelio, Ralph J. ed. (1974) Hal in the classroom: science fiction films. Dayton, Ohio: Pflaum.
Ruins
Davis, Mike (2002)
Dead Cities, and Other Tales. New York: New Press.
-- Excellent chapter on the history of urban decay in geography and fiction!
Hamm, Manfred (1982) Dead tech: a guide to the archaeology of tomorrow. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
Harbison, Robert (1991) The Built, the Unbuilt, and the Unbuildable: In Pursuit of Architectural Meaning. Cambridge, Mass: MIT.
Macaulay, Rose (1953) Pleasure of Ruins. London: Weidenfield and Nicolson.
Roth, Michael ed. (1997) Irresistible decay: ruins reclaimed. Santa Monica, California: The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities.
Zucker, Paul (1968) Fascination of decay; ruins: relic, symbol, ornament. Ridgewood, NJ: Gregg Press.
Process of Decay
Renfrew, C. and Bahn, P. (1991)
Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice. London: Thames and Hudson.
Schiffer, Michael (1987)
Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Spinney, Laura (1996) "Return to Paradise" in
New Scientist, 20th July 1996.
Romanticism
Harbison, Robert (1991) The Built, the Unbuilt, and the Unbuildable: In Pursuit of Architectural Meaning. Cambridge, Mass: MIT.
McFarland, Thomas (1981) Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Modalities of Fragmentation. Prineton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Radisch, Paula Rea (1998) Hubert Robert: Painted Spaces of the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Contemporary Art and Photography
Gill, Simryn (2004) Standing Still, Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König ; New York: Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers. -- Some striking pictures of unfinished modern building projects from Southeast Asia that have simply been allowed to fall into ruin.
Shioda, Junichi, Naohiro Takahashi, Junko Kitamura, Masako Shimizu, and Susumu Yano (ed.s) (1992) The Urban Environment and Art in Japan: My Home Sweet Home in Ruins, Tokyo: Setagaya Art Museum.
