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Worlds enough and time : explorations of time in science fiction and fantasy
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Worlds enough and time : explorations of time in science fiction and fantasy

Author: Gary Westfahl; George Edgar Slusser; David Leiby
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
Series: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 101
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gary Westfahl; George Edgar Slusser; David Leiby
ISBN: 0313317062 9780313317064
OCLC Number: 48851458
Description: vi, 198 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The Quarries of time / Gary Westfahl -- Pt.1. Time's arrows: Arrows and riddles of time: scientific models of time travel / George Slusser and Robert Heath -- Impossible times: some temporal labyrinths in science fiction / Richard Saint-Gelais -- The jaws of the intellect grip the flesh of occurrence: order in time travel / David Leiby -- "Backward, turn backward": narratives of reversed time in science fiction / Andrew Sawyer -- Pt. II. Timescapes: Beyond the endtime terminus: allegories of coalescence in far-future science fiction / Kirk Hampton and Carol MacKay -- Time and some mysteries of mind / Susan Stratton -- Jews in time: alternate histories and futures in space...and who was that bearded, Yarmulkeh'd old man? / Susan Kray -- The desire to conrol time in Doraemon and Japanese culture / Jefferson M. Peters -- Pt. III. Time capsules: The curvature of space-time in Dante's The Divine Comedy / Pekka Kuusisto -- Temporal compression, fractious history: H.G. Wells, George Orwell, and the mutiny of "historical narrative" / Larry W. Caldwell -- Play it again, Sam: Ken Grimwood's Replay and time travel as reincarnation / Andrew Gordon -- Time travel at the crossroads: the search for new paradigms in science and science fiction / Bradford Lyau -- Tall, dark, and a long time dead: epistemology, time travel, and the bodice-ripper / Erica Obey -- A bibliography of works related to time and time travel.
Series Title: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 101
Responsibility: edited by Gary Westfahl, George Slusser, and David Leiby.

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