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Mindscapes, the geographies of imagined worlds

Author: George Edgar Slusser; Eric S Rabkin
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1989.
Series: Alternatives.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Riverside (Calif., 1987)
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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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