Essays presented at the Seventh Eaton Conference, held April 12-14, 1985, at the University of California, Riverside. Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-239) and index.
Contents:
pt. 3. Science fiction: going around in generic circles / David Clayton. pt. 1. Discriminations: Boiling roses: thoughts on science fantasy / Robert Scholes -- Parallel universe: fantasy or science fiction? / Joseph D. Miller -- High tech and high sorcery: some discriminations between science fiction and fantasy / Michael W. McClintock -- Science fiction and the semiotics of realism / J. Timothy Bagwell -- Filling the niche: fantasy and science fiction in contemporary horror / Michael R. Collings -- Fantasy and science fiction: a writer's view / Roger Zelazny -- pt. 2. Gestations: The gestation of genres: literature, fiction, romance, science fiction, fantasy ... / Samuel R. Delany -- Konstantin Tsiolovsky: science fiction and philosophy in the history of Soviet space exploration / Michael Holquist -- Victorian urban Gothic: the first modern fantastic literature / Kathleen Spencer -- Jewels of wonder, instruments of delight: science fiction, fantasy, and science fantasy as vision-inducing works / Michael Clifton -- The tooth that gnaws: reflections on time travel / David A. Leiby -- Frames in search of a genre / Frank McConnell -- pt. 3. Fields: The And in fantasy and science fiction / George E. Slusser -- Homecomings: fantasy and horror / Celeste Pernicone -- Science fantasy and myth / Brian Attebery -- Gravity's rainbow: science fiction, fantasy, and mythology / Kathryn Hume -- Science fiction: going around in generic circles / David Clayton.
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