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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15365905 Title: Aliens : the anthropology of science fiction Author: George Edgar Slusser; Eric S Rabkin Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1987. ISBN/ISSN: 0809313758 9780809313754 OCLC:15365905

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Aliens : the anthropology of science fiction

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Aliens : the anthropology of science fiction

Author:	George Edgar Slusser; Eric S Rabkin
Publisher:	Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1987.
Series:	Alternatives.
Edition/Format:	Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Aliens. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1987 (OCoLC)575469185
Material Type:	Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	George Edgar Slusser; Eric S Rabkin Find more information about:
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.
More information:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description

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