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1 online resource (xxi, 243 pages). |
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Essays written for the 8th J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, held Apr. 13-15, 1986 at the University of California, Riverside. |
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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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Print version record. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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Life on other planets in literature.
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Monsters in literature.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Life on other planets in literature. (OCoLC)fst00998312
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Monsters in literature. (OCoLC)fst01025760
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Science fiction. (OCoLC)fst01108566
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Added Author |
Slusser, George Edgar.
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Rabkin, Eric S.
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Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (8th : 1986 : University of California, Riverside)
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Print version: Aliens. Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1987 0809313758 (DLC) 87004721 (OCoLC)15365905 |
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0585186537 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585186535 (electronic bk.) |
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