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Aliens : the anthropology of science fiction /
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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Carbondale, Ill. :
Southern Illinois University Press,
©1987.
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| Series: | Alternatives.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The anthropology of the alien / George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin
- Part one : Searchings : the quest for the alien
- The alien on our minds / Larry Niven
- Effing the ineffable / Gregory Benford
- Border patrols / Michael Beehler
- Alien aliens / Pascal Ducommun
- Metamorphoses of the dragon / George E. Slusser
- Part two : Sightings : the aliens among us
- Discriminating among friends : the social dynamics of the friendly alien / John Huntington
- Sex, superman, and sociobiology in science fiction / Joseph D. Miller
- Cowboys and telepaths
- formulas and phenomena / Eric S. Rabkin
- Robots : three fantasies and one big cold reality / Noel Perrin
- Aliens in the supermarket : science fiction and fantasy for 'inquiring minds" / George R. Guffey
- Aliens 'R' U.S. : American science fiction viewed from Down Under / Zoe Sofia
- Part three : Soundings : man as the alien
- H.G. Wells' familiar aliens / John R. Reed
- Inspiration and possession : ambivalent intimacy with the alien / Clayton Koelb
- Cybernauts in cyberspace : William Gibson's Neuromancer / David Porush
- The human alien : in-groups and outbreeding in Enemy mine / Leihgton Brett Cooke
- From Astarte to Barbie and beyond : the serious history of dolls / Frank McConnell
- An introduction of monsters / Colin Greenland.