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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11548542 Title: Hard science fiction Author: George Edgar Slusser; Eric S Rabkin Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1986. ISBN/ISSN: 0809312344 9780809312344 OCLC:11548542

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Hard science fiction

Author:	George Edgar Slusser; Eric S Rabkin
Publisher:	Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1986.
Series:	Alternatives.
Edition/Format:	Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form:	Congresses
Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Hard science fiction. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1986 (OCoLC)562407325 Online version: Hard science fiction. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1986 (OCoLC)607680831
Material Type:	Conference publication
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	George Edgar Slusser; Eric S Rabkin Find more information about:
ISBN:	0809312344 9780809312344
OCLC Number:	11548542
Notes:	Proceedings of the fifth Eaton Conference on Fantasy and Science Fiction, held April 9-10, 1983, at the University of California, Riverside.
Description:	xvi, 284 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents:	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.
Series Title:	Alternatives.
Responsibility:	edited by George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin.
More information:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description

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