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1 online resource (xiii, 302 pages). |
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polychrome |
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Alternatives.
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Essays presented at the Ninth Annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature held Apr. 10-12, 1987 at the University of California, Riverside. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: The concept of mindscape / George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin -- Nature : laws and surprises / Poul Anderson -- Survival of myth in science fiction / Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty -- "The swelling act" : the psychoanalytic geography of fantasy / Ronald J. Heckelman -- Metaphorical drive, or, Why we're such good liars / David Brin -- Playing fields of Eden / Frank McConnell -- Bookscapes : science fiction in the library of Babel / George E. Slusser -- Belief and other worlds : Ktesias and the founding of "Indian wonders" / James Romm -- Universal mindscape : the Gaia hypothesis in science fiction / Jack G. Voller -- Recent feminist utopias : world building and strategies for social change / Peter Fitting -- Time and vast eternities : landscapes of immortality in Orson Scott Card's fiction / Michael R. Collings -- Avenues of power : cities as mindscapes of politics / Pascal J. Thomas -- Two landscapes of J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island / Reinhart Lutz -- Neuroscience fiction : the Roman à synaptic cleft / Joseph D. Miller -- Islands in the sky : space stations in the universe of science fiction / Gary Westfahl -- What really happened on Mulberry Street? / Bill Lee -- Infinity in your back pocket : pocket universes and adjacent worlds / Max P. Belin -- Landscape and the Romantic dilemma : myth and metaphor in science-fiction narrative / William Lomax -- "The adjutant" : suggestions for maps in time and space from Greene to Johnson to Lem / Donald M. Hassler -- Ultimate mindscape : Dante's Paradiso / Jean-Pierre Barricelli -- Pascal's terror / Gregory Benford -- Revolutionary mindscape / Gary Kern -- Suggestions for a typology of mindscapes / David N. Samuelson. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Fantasy literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Fantasy literature. |
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Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Science fiction. |
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Imaginary places in literature -- Congresses.
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Imaginary places in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Riverside (Calif., 1987)
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Slusser, George Edgar.
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Rabkin, Eric S.
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Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (9th : 1987 : University of California, Riverside)
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Print version: Mindscapes, the geographies of imagined worlds. Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1989 0809314541 (DLC) 88018299 (OCoLC)18522111 |
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058518657X (electronic book) |
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9780585186573 (electronic book) |
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0809314541 (alkaline paper) |
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9780809314546 (alkaline paper) |
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