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Subtitle: placing science fiction and fantasy
By: edited by George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, and Robert Scholes
Contributors: Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (3rd : 1981 : University of California, Riverside)
Series: Alternatives; Alternatives
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Carbondale, Ill
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780585186580
Subjects: Science fiction; Congresses; Anthologies (multiple authors); Electronic books; Fantasy fiction; FICTION
Notes: Essays presented at the 3rd J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy held Feb. 21-22, 1981, at the University of California, Riverside.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: The criticism of science fiction  -- Leslie Fiedler; title: The descent of fantasy  -- Eric S. Rabkin; title: How new is new?  -- Gerald Prince; title: Jules Verne: journey to the center of science fiction  -- Mark Rose; title: Manifest destiny: science fiction and classical form  -- Joseph M. Lenz; title: "All you have to do is know what you want": individual expectations in Triton  -- Michelle Masse; title: Autoplastic and alloplastic adaptations in science fiction: "Waldo" and "Desertion"  -- Gary K. Wolfe; title: Science fiction for the age of inflation: reading Atlas shrugged in the 1980s  -- Robert Hunt; title: Fahrenheit 451 and the "cubby-hole editors" of Ballantine Books  -- George R. Guffey; title: America as science fiction: 1939  -- H. Bruce Franklin; title: Rider Haggard's heart of darkness  -- Sandra M. Gilbert; title: She in Herland: feminism as fantasy  -- Susan Gubar; title: Death and the mirror: existential fantasy -- George E. Slusser.