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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Aliens. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1987 (OCoLC)575469185 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
George Edgar Slusser; Eric S Rabkin |
| ISBN: | 0809313758 9780809313754 |
| OCLC Number: | 15365905 |
| Notes: | Essays written for the 8th J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, held Apr. 13-15, 1986 at the University of California, Riverside. |
| Description: | xxi, 243 p. ; 23 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Alternatives. |
| Responsibility: | edited by George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin. |
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