Hard science fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
Other Authors: Slusser, George Edgar, Rabkin, Eric S.
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1986.
Series:Alternatives.
Subjects:
Science fiction > Congresses.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Science fiction
Languages & Literatures.
Literature - General.
Conference papers and proceedings
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • When science writes the fiction / Robert L. Forward
  • Running out of speculative niches : a crisis for hard science fiction? / David Brin
  • Sturgeon's law : first corollary / Frank McConnell
  • Unconscious city / Eric S. Rabkin
  • Hard-core science fiction and the illusion of science / John Huntington
  • What makes hard science fiction "hard?" / David Clayton
  • Readers of hard science fiction / James Gunn
  • Is there a technological fix for the human condition? / Gregory Benford
  • Thomas Burnet's sacred theory of the Earth and the aesthetics of extrapolation / Paul Alkon
  • Language of the future in Victorian science fiction / Herbert Sussman
  • Science and scientism in C.S. Lewis's That hideous strength / Michael Collings
  • "You can write science fiction if you want to" / Paul A. Carter
  • Artificial intelligence : wild imaginary worlds, wilder realities / Patricia S. Warrick
  • Noise, information, and statistics in Stanislaw Lem's The investigation / George R. Guffey
  • Cybernetic paradigms of Stanislaw Lem / Robert M. Philmus
  • Ideal worlds of science fiction / George E. Slusser.

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