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1 online resource (xvi, 284 pages) |
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Alternatives |
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Alternatives.
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When science writes the fiction / Robert L. Forward -- Running out of speculative niches : a crisis for hard science fiction? / David Brin -- Sturgeon's law : first corollary / Frank McConnell -- Unconscious city / Eric S. Rabkin -- Hard-core science fiction and the illusion of science / John Huntington -- What makes hard science fiction "hard?" / David Clayton -- Readers of hard science fiction / James Gunn -- Is there a technological fix for the human condition? / Gregory Benford -- Thomas Burnet's sacred theory of the Earth and the aesthetics of extrapolation / Paul Alkon -- Language of the future in Victorian science fiction / Herbert Sussman -- Science and scientism in C.S. Lewis's That hideous strength / Michael Collings -- "You can write science fiction if you want to" / Paul A. Carter -- Artificial intelligence : wild imaginary worlds, wilder realities / Patricia S. Warrick -- Noise, information, and statistics in Stanislaw Lem's The investigation / George R. Guffey -- Cybernetic paradigms of Stanislaw Lem / Robert M. Philmus -- Ideal worlds of science fiction / George E. Slusser |
| Notes |
Proceedings of the fifth Eaton Conference on Fantasy and Science Fiction, held April 9-10, 1983, at the University of California, Riverside |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-272) |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Science fiction -- Congresses
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Science fiction
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Languages & Literatures.
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Literature - General.
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Slusser, George Edgar
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Rabkin, Eric S
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Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (5th : 1983 : University of California, Riverside)
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| LC no. |
84027644 |
| ISBN |
0585186553 |
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9780585186559 |
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