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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Transcendent adventure. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1985 (OCoLC)606391078 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Reilly |
| ISBN: | 0313230625 9780313230622 |
| OCLC Number: | 10348599 |
| Description: | x, 266 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | [Part I. Significances : contexts for critical consideration] -- Religious imagination and imagined religion / Adam J. Frisch and Joseph Martos -- Mind, matter, and magic in fantasy and science fiction / Richard L. Purtill -- Science fiction's harrowing of the heavens / William A. Quinn -- For suffering humanity : the ethics of science in science fiction / Alexander J. Butrym -- [Part II. Dilemmas of paradise : Blish and Lewis] -- The concept of Eden / Andrew J. Burgess -- Augustinian evil in C.S. Lewis's Perelandra / Katherin A. Rogers -- Alien ethics and religion versus fallen mankind / Diane Parkin-Speer -- [Part III. Major Authors : individualized treatments of religion] -- Philip K. Dick's answers to the eternal riddles / Patricia S. Warrick -- From rebellious rationalist to mythmaker and mystic : the religious quest of Philip Jose Farmer / Edgar L. Chapman -- Toward a structural metaphysic : religion in the novels of Frank Herbert / David M. Miller -- The evolution of Doris Lessing's art from a mystical moment to space fiction / Nancy Topping Bazin -- Walter M. Miller's A canticle for Leibowitz as a third testament / Frank David Kievitt -- Up the Empire State Buioding : Satan and King Kong in Walter Tevis's Mockingbird / Martha A. Bartter -- Persian influences in J.R.R. Tolkien's The lord of the rings / Elizabeth M. Allen -- Promethean bound : heroes and gods in Roger Zelazny's science fiction / Joseph V. Francavilla -- [Part IV. Bibliographies] -- A checklist of science fiction/fantasy works containing religious themes or motifs / Robert Reilly, Frank D. McSherry, Jr. and Charles G. Waugh -- Secondary works dealing with religion in science fiction / Robert Reilly. |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 12. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Robert Reilly. |
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