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Storm warnings : science fiction confronts the future

Author: George Edgar Slusser; Colin Greenland; Eric S Rabkin
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1987.
Series: Alternatives.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Storm warnings.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1987
(OCoLC)569057105
Named Person: George Orwell; George Orwell
Material Type: Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: George Edgar Slusser; Colin Greenland; Eric S Rabkin
ISBN: 0809313766 9780809313761
OCLC Number: 14378769
Description: xi, 278 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Science fiction confronts the future / George E. Slusser, Colin Greenland, and Eric S. Rabkin --
pt. 1. Originating the future: Storm warnings and dead zones: imagination and the future / George E. Slusser --
Origins of futuristic fiction: Felix Bodin's Novel of the future / Paul Alkon --
Anticipating the past: the time riddle in science fiction / Marie-Hélène Huet --
The thing of shapes to come: science fiction as anatomy of the future / Howard V. Hendrix --
Knowing the unknown: Heinlein, Lem, and the future / Bradford Lyau --
Reactionary Utopias / Gregory Benford --
Media, message, and myths: three fictionists for the near future / José Manuel Mota --
pt. 2. Orwell: an interim report: Coming up on 1984 / Frederik Pohl --
O'Brien's interim report / George Hay --
Images of Nineteen eighty-four: fiction and prediction / Colin Greenland --
Orwell and the uses of the future / John Huntington --
One man's tomorrow in another's today: the reader's world and its impact on Nineteen eighty-four / Elizabeth Maslen --
Big brother antichrist: Orwell, apocalypse, and overpopulation / W.M.S. Russell and Claire Russell --
Variations on newspeak: the open question of Nineteen eighty-four / T.A. Shippey --
pt. 3. Alienation, prognostication, and apocalypse: Aliens for the alienated / Kenneth V. Bailey --
News versus fiction: reflections on prognostication / Gary Kern --
Boring dates: reflections on the apocalypse game / Frank McConnell.
Series Title: Alternatives.
Responsibility: edited by George E. Slusser, Colin Greenland, and Eric S. Rabkin.
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