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Title Hard science fiction / edited by George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin.

Publication Info. Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, [1986]
©1986

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 284 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Alternatives
Alternatives.
Note Proceedings of the fifth Eaton Conference on Fantasy and Science Fiction, held April 9-10, 1983, at the University of California, Riverside.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-272).
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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Science fiction -- Congresses.
Science fiction -- Congresses.
Science fiction.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Slusser, George Edgar.
Rabkin, Eric S.
Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (5th : 1983 : University of California, Riverside)
Other Form: Print version: Hard science fiction. Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1986 0809312344 (DLC) 84027644 (OCoLC)11548542
ISBN 0585186553 (electronic book)
9780585186559 (electronic book)
0809312344
9780809312344