| Description |
vii, 261 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preface: science fiction: a personal view / Carl Sagan -- Introduction: the infinity connection / Jack Williamson -- Part 1. The topic. On teachign science fiction / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Science fiction and society / Isaac Asimov -- Science fiction and the research revolution / Leon Stover -- Bridging the gap between technology and the humanities / Robin Wilson -- Science fiction, literary tradition and intellectual history / Thomas D. Clareson -- Twentieth-century science-fiction writers / Alexei and Cory Panshin -- Women and science fiction / Susan Wood -- Part 2. The teachers. Science fiction in the primary school? / Barry B. Longyear -- Science fiction in the high school / Elizabeth Calkins and Barry McGhan -- Science fiction in the English department / Mark R. Hillegas -- Miss Forsyte is dead: long live the sci-fi lady! / Carolyn Wendell -- Science fiction and the science teacher / Stanley Schmidt -- Science fiction in a computers and society course / Patricia S. Warrick -- Social science fiction / Leon Stover -- Teaching political science fiction / Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander -- Science fiction and psychology / Robert Plank -- Science fiction and religion / Andrew J. Burgess -- Philosopic insight through science fiction: focusing on human problems / Robert E. Myers -- Something happens / Kate Wilhelm -- Rusty paperclips and personalized rejection slips: opportunities for new writers / Vonda N. McIntyre -- Three syllabi / Dave Samuelson, Gary Goshgarian and Dennis Livingstone -- Part 3. The tools. The tinsel screen: science fiction and the movies / James Gunn -- Staging a minicorn / Robert Barthell -- A bibliography of twentieth-century science fiction / Alexei and Cory Panshin -- Library and reference resources / Neil Barron |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 242-258 |
| Subject |
Science fiction -- Study and teaching.
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| Author |
Williamson, Jack, 1908-2006.
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| LC no. |
79092642 |
| ISSN |
1389-6152 |
| ISBN |
0913896152 |
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