The End of the world
By: edited by Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander.
Contributors: Rabkin, Eric S.; Greenberg, Martin Harry.; Olander, Joseph D.
Series: Alternatives
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Science fiction -- History and criticism; End of the world in literature
Description: Book Description: Wolfe sees in these postholocaust narratives a central attraction- "the mythic power inherent in the very conception of a remade world." This power derives from three sources: the emergence of a new order from the ashes of the old system, and thus a kind of denial of death; the reinforcement of one set of values as opposed to another; and as something always replaces whatever was destroyed, a promise that nothing can annihilate humanity.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 187-190.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: vii
authors: Eric S. Rabkin
subtitle: Why Destroy the World?; label: 1
title: The Remaking of Zero
pagenum: 1
authors: Gary K. Wolfe
subtitle: Beginning at the End; label: 2
title: The Lone Survivor
pagenum: 20
authors: Robert Plank; label: 3
title: Ambiguous Apocalypse
pagenum: 53
authors: Robert Galbreath
subtitle: Transcendental Versions of the End; label: 4
title: Round Trips to Doomsday
pagenum: 73
authors: W. Warren Wagar; label: 5
title: Man-Made Catastrophes
pagenum: 97
authors: Brian Stableford; label: 6
title: The Rebellion of Nature
pagenum: 139
authors: W. Warren Wagar; title: Notes
pagenum: 175; title: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 187; title: Index
pagenum: 191