Arthur Machen (1863-1947), who achieved significant fame in the 1920s, was a general man of letters with echoes of Samuel Johnson, an important influence on later fantasy writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Ray Bradbury, and a great adventurer of the spirit. Montgomery Evans II, a wealthy book collector, and one of a small circle of Machen's friends ...
Patterns II includes ten scholarly essays on a variety of science fiction themes and topics, as presented at ConStellation, the Forty-First World SF Convention, held at Baltimore, Maryland, from September 1-5, 1983. Included are essays by Merritt Abrash, Rosemarie Arbur, Jared Lobdell, Edward A. Boyno, Constance M. Mellott, Lawrence I. Charters, ...
Well-known critic Hassler here contributes a comprehensive survey of Asimov's major fiction, from his beginnings as a short-story writer in "The Campbell Years," through his early and juvenile novels, including a complete outline and evaluation of the author's ever-popular Robot and Foundation series. Starmont Reader's Guide 40.
This book offers an interpretation of the evolution of a growing genre in literary, film, and television.As a follow-up to their 1997 collection "Political Science Fiction" Hassler and Wilcox have assembled twenty-four noted international scholars representing diverse fields of inquiry to assess the influential voices and trends from the past ...
This text examines the close relationship between politics and science fiction and shows how much of the former is grounded in the latter. It is both an exploration of futuristic literature and a spectrum of ideas, from libertarianism to feminism.
"This study is a meditation upon the uses of the comic as a survival technique in our capricious age of crisis and indeterminacy. ... Comic irony, argues Hassler, becomes a tonal direction for our own skeptical age, where notions of progress have made it a partner with the absurd. Ursula LeGuin, Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov, and William Golding ...
A selection of papers delivered at Chicon IV, including "Stephen King in Context," (Joseph F. Patrouch, Jr.); "Narcissism and Romance in McCaffrey's 'Restoree, '" (Mary T. Brizzi; "Harlan Ellison's Use of the Narrator's Voice" (Joseph F. Patrouch, Jr., more.
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Publisher: English Department of the College of Wooster
Date Published: 1993
Description: Near Very Good. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. pp 1-89 The languages of science fiction: Samuel Delaney's Babel-17. Neuromanticism: cyberspace and the sublime. Free will and sexual choice in The Stand. The strange case of Mary Reilly. "The discourse of arrogance". popular power, and anarchy: the (First) Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. Mythology and technology: the novels of William Gibson. read more
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Publisher: English Department of the College of Wooster
Date Published: 1991
Description: Near Very Good. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. pp 207-300 A sufi model for the Teacher/Disciple relationsjop in The Sirian Experiments. Critique and fantasy in two novels by Philip K. Dick. Sam Johnson on Grub Street, early science fiction pulps, and Vonnegut. Raiders of the Lost Ark; totem and taboo. Sites for sore souls: some science fictionnal saloons. The shadow of spirit in William Gibson's matrix trilogy. read more
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Date Published: 1991
Description: Near Very Good. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. pp 108-203 Tribute to Donald A. Wollheim. Governing galactic civilization: Hobbes and Locke in outer space. Ender's beginning: battling the military in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. Created in the image of God: the narrator and the computer in Halan Ellison's "I have no mouth, and i must scream". The machin ein the ghost: time and presence in Varley's Millennium. read more
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Publisher: English Department of the College of Wooster
Date Published: 1992
Description: Near Very Good. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. pp 186-290. Dickian time in The Man in the High Castle. Short fiction by Judith Merril. Triumphan technology and minimal man: The Technological Society, Science Fiction Films, and Ridley Scott's Alien. The hunchbacked hero in the fiction of A. J. Budrys. Mathew Arnold's "Dover Beach", gender, and science fiction. Technology and gender in Aldous Huxley's alternative worlds. read more
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Publisher: English Department of the College of Wooster
Date Published: 1992
Description: Near Very Good. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. pp 292-377. Not just "Cosmic Skullduggery": a partial reconsideration of space opera. Ethos and marginalization in the Henry James/ H.G. Wells affair. Wells, Orwell and Atwood: (EPI_ logic and Eu/Utopia. H.G. Wells and Ralph Ellison: need the effect of one invisible man on another be Itself invisible? The War of the Worlds Revisited: science fiction and the angst of secularization. read more
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Date Published: 1991
Description: Near Very Good. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. 104 pp "Our first decade"-Jack Williamson, "The wrp-drive to sequelize: book one in the chronicles of Westfahl the Critic"-Gary Westfahl, "Le Guin's Earthsea: Voyages in consciousness"-Craig and Diana Barrow. read more
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Publisher: English Department of the College of Wooster
Date Published: 1993
Description: Near Very Good. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. pp 286-365. The words that could happen: science fiction neologisms and the creation of future worlds. The ethos of English departments: Henry James and H.G. Wells, continued. "From the gegetting of monsters": distortion as unifier in a Canticle for Leibowitz. The "Monster" reconsidered: Blade Runner's replicant as romantic hero. read more
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Publisher: English Department of the College of Wooster
Date Published: 1991
Description: Near Very Good. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. pp 302-378 Ray Cummings as the American H.G. Wells. The Spenglerian city in James Blish's After Such Knowledge. Re-Memebering men dis-membered in Sall Miller Gearhart's Ecofeminist Utopia The Wanderground. The post-apocalyptic library: oral and literate culture in Fahrenheit 451 and a Canticle for Leibowitz. Ann Radcliffe in the 1980's: an annotated bibliography of criticism. Technological transfiguration in William Gibson's Sprawl novels: Neuromancer, Count ... read more
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Publisher: English Department of the College of Wooster
Date Published: 1994
Description: Near Very Good. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. pp 1-90 Judith Merril: scouting SF. Scottich fantasy. The man who didn't write fantasy: Lord Dunsany and the self-deprecatory tradition in English ligh fiction. J.G. Ballard: time out of mind. Robert Asprin: the man behind the myths. The Cyclopean city: a fantasy image of decadence. read more
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Publisher: English Department of the College of Wooster
Date Published: 1993
Description: Near Very Good. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. pp 194-284. The politics of prophecy. Exploring divergent realities: using science fiction to teach introductory political science. H.G. Wells's A Modern Utopia as a work in progress. Understanding utopian literature. Swift, Pohl, and Kornbluth: publicists anatomize newness. "We Owe it to Them to Interfere": Star Trek and U.S. statecraft in the 1960s and 1990s. Dating data: miscegenation in Star Trek: the Next Generation. read more
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