| Description |
viii, 168 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Alternatives
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| Note |
Essays prepared for the First Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, held Feb. 24-25, 1979, at the University of California, Riverside. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Science fiction -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Slusser, George Edgar.
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Guffey, George Robert.
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Rose, Mark, 1939-
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| ISBN |
0809309610 |
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