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1 online resource (xvi, 284 pages). |
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Proceedings of the fifth Eaton Conference on Fantasy and Science Fiction, held April 9-10, 1983, at the University of California, Riverside. |
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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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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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Science fiction -- Congresses.
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Science fiction -- Congresses. |
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Science fiction. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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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 (5th : 1983 : University of California, Riverside)
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Print version: Hard science fiction. Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1986 0809312344 (DLC) 84027644 (OCoLC)11548542 |
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0585186553 (electronic book) |
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9780585186559 (electronic book) |
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0809312344 |
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9780809312344 |
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