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| Genre/Form: | Congresses Congrès |
|---|---|
| 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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