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xi, 278 pages ; 23 cm. |
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Alternatives
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Alternatives.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-264) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Science fiction confronts the future / George E. Slusser, Colin Greenland, and Eric S. Rabkin -- pt. 1. Originating the future: Storm warnings and dead zones: imagination and the future / George E. Slusser -- Origins of futuristic fiction: Felix Bodin's Novel of the future / Paul Alkon -- Anticipating the past: the time riddle in science fiction / Marie-Hélène Huet -- Thing of shapes to come: science fiction as anatomy of the future / Howard V. Hendrix -- Knowing the unknown: Heinlein, Lem, and the future / Bradford Lyau -- Reactionary Utopias / Gregory Benford -- Media, message, and myths: three fictionists for the near future / José Manuel Mota -- pt. 2. Orwell: an interim report: Coming up on 1984 / Frederik Pohl -- O'Brien's interim report / George Hay -- Images of Nineteen eighty-four: fiction and prediction / Colin Greenland -- Orwell and the uses of the future / John Huntington -- One man's tomorrow in another's today: the reader's world and its impact on Nineteen eighty-four / Elizabeth Maslen -- Big brother antichrist: Orwell, apocalypse, and overpopulation / W.M.S. Russell and Claire Russell -- Variations on newspeak: the open question of Nineteen eighty-four / T.A. Shippey -- pt. 3. Alienation, prognostication, and apocalypse: Aliens for the alienated / Kenneth V. Bailey -- News versus fiction: reflections on prognostication / Gary Kern -- Boring dates: reflections on the apocalypse game / Frank McConnell. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
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Science fiction, American -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Science fiction, American. |
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Future, The, in literature -- Congresses.
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Future, The, in literature. |
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Science fiction, English -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Science fiction, English. |
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Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Nineteen eighty-four -- Congresses.
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Literature and science -- English-speaking countries -- Congresses.
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Literature and science. |
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English-speaking countries. |
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Slusser, George Edgar.
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Greenland, Colin, 1954-
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Rabkin, Eric S.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Storm warnings. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1987 (OCoLC)569057105 |
| ISBN |
0809313766 alkaline paper |
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9780809313761 alkaline paper |
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