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Title Bridges to science fiction / edited by George E. Slusser, George R. Guffey, and Mark Rose. [electronic resource] [Alternatives ]
Publisher Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
London : Feffer & Simons
Creation Date c1980
Notes Essays prepared for the First Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, held Feb. 24-25, 1979, at the University of California, Riverside.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Science and fiction / Harry Levin -- Incorporating divinity: Platonic science fiction in the Middle Ages / Kent T. Kraft -- Dialogues concerning human understanding: empirical views of God from Locke to Lem / Stephen W. Potts -- Aliens and knowability: a scientist's perspective / Gregory Benford -- Visionary states and the search for transcendence in science fiction / Robert Hunt -- Fairy tales and science fiction / Eric S. Rabkin -- Science fiction as truncated epic / Patrick Parrinder -- Science fiction and the Gothic / Thomas H. Keeling -- Philip Dick's Man in the high castle and the nature of science-fictional worlds / Carl D. Malmgren -- The past of science fiction / Thomas A. Hanzo.
Series Alternatives Bridges to science fiction
Extent 1 online resource (viii, 168 p. )
Language English
National Library system number 997010701687405171
MARC RECORDS
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Coordinates : placing science fiction and fantasy / edited by George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, and Robert Scholes. [electronic resource] [Alternatives ]
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Intersections: fantasy and science fiction
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