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Title Aliens : the anthropology of science fiction / edited by George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin.

Publication Info. Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, [1987]
©1987

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 243 pages).
Series Alternatives
Alternatives.
Note Essays written for the 8th J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, held Apr. 13-15, 1986 at the University of California, Riverside.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232).
Contents Introduction : The anthropology of the alien / George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin -- Part one : Searchings : the quest for the alien -- The alien on our minds / Larry Niven -- Effing the ineffable / Gregory Benford -- Border patrols / Michael Beehler -- Alien aliens / Pascal Ducommun -- Metamorphoses of the dragon / George E. Slusser -- Part two : Sightings : the aliens among us -- Discriminating among friends : the social dynamics of the friendly alien / John Huntington -- Sex, superman, and sociobiology in science fiction / Joseph D. Miller -- Cowboys and telepaths -- formulas and phenomena / Eric S. Rabkin -- Robots : three fantasies and one big cold reality / Noel Perrin -- Aliens in the supermarket : science fiction and fantasy for 'inquiring minds" / George R. Guffey -- Aliens 'R' U.S. : American science fiction viewed from Down Under / Zoe Sofia -- Part three : Soundings : man as the alien -- H.G. Wells' familiar aliens / John R. Reed -- Inspiration and possession : ambivalent intimacy with the alien / Clayton Koelb -- Cybernauts in cyberspace : William Gibson's Neuromancer / David Porush -- The human alien : in-groups and outbreeding in Enemy mine / Leihgton Brett Cooke -- From Astarte to Barbie and beyond : the serious history of dolls / Frank McConnell -- An introduction of monsters / Colin Greenland.
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Subject Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Life on other planets in literature.
Monsters in literature.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Life on other planets in literature. (OCoLC)fst00998312
Monsters in literature. (OCoLC)fst01025760
Science fiction. (OCoLC)fst01108566
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Added Author Slusser, George Edgar.
Rabkin, Eric S.
Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (8th : 1986 : University of California, Riverside)
Other Form: Print version: Aliens. Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1987 0809313758 (DLC) 87004721 (OCoLC)15365905
ISBN 0585186537 (electronic bk.)
9780585186535 (electronic bk.)
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