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| Genre/Form: | Riverside (Calif., 1987) Congresses Congrès |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Mindscapes, the geographies of imagined worlds. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1989 (OCoLC)578700054 |
| Material Type: | Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
George Edgar Slusser; Eric S Rabkin |
| ISBN: | 0809314541 9780809314546 |
| OCLC Number: | 18522111 |
| Notes: | Essays presented at the Ninth Annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature held Apr. 10-12, 1987 at the University of California, Riverside. |
| Description: | xiii, 302 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: The concept of mindscape / George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin -- Nature : laws and surprises / Poul Anderson -- The survival of myth in science fiction / Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty -- "The swelling act" : the psychoanalytic geography of fantasy / Ronald J. Heckelman -- Metaphorical drive, or, Why we're such good liars / David Brin -- The playing fields of Eden / Frank McConnell -- Bookscapes : science fiction in the library of Babel / George E. Slusser -- Belief and other worlds : Ktesias and the founding of "Indian wonders" / James Romm -- Universal mindscape : the Gaia hypothesis in science fiction / Jack G. Voller -- Recent feminist utopias : world building and strategies for social change / Peter Fitting -- Time and vast eternities : landscapes of immortality in Orson Scott Card's fiction / Michael R. Collings -- Avenues of power : cities as mindscapes of politics / Pascal J. Thomas -- The two landscapes of J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island / Reinhart Lutz -- Neuroscience fiction : the Roman à synaptic cleft / Joseph D. Miller -- Islands in the sky : space stations in the universe of science fiction / Gary Westfahl -- What really happened on Mulberry Street? / Bill Lee -- Infinity in your back pocket : pocket universes and adjacent worlds / Max P. Belin -- Landscape and the Romantic dilemma : myth and metaphor in science-fiction narrative / William Lomax -- "The adjutant" : suggestions for maps in time and space from Greene to Johnson to Lem / Donald M. Hassler -- The ultimate mindscape : Dante's Paradiso / Jean-Pierre Barricelli -- Pascal's terror / Gregory Benford -- The revolutionary mindscape / Gary Kern -- Suggestions for a typology of mindscapes / David N. Samuelson. |
| Series Title: | Alternatives. |
| Responsibility: | edited by George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin. |
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- Fantasy literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
- Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
- Imaginary places in literature -- Congresses.
- Littérature fantastique -- Histoire et critique -- Congrès.
- Science-fiction -- Histoire et critique -- Congrès.
- Imaginärer Schauplatz.
- Kongreß.
- Phantastische Literatur.
- Science-Fiction.
