Storm Warnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future
by George Edgar Slusser, Colin Greenland (Editor), Eric S. Rabkin (Editor)
J. Lloyd Eaton Conference (6)
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These 17 original essays, written for the sixth Eaton Conference on Fantasy and Science Fiction, explore the uses, origins, and forms of future fiction. The contributors are George E. Slusser, Paul Alkon, Marie-Hélène Huet, Howard V. Hendrix, Bradford Lyau, Gregory Benford, José Manuel Mota, Frederik Pohl, George Hay, Colin Greenland, John Huntington, Elizabeth Maslen, W. M. S. and Claire Russell, T. A. Shippey, Kenneth V. Bailey, Gary Kern, and Frank McConnell. The essays address the show more question “Do we call up images of future societies in order to prepare for them, or to forestall their ever coming into existence?” show lessTags
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Eric S. Rabkin teaches in the Department of English at the University of Michigan.
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Science Fiction
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- 813.0876 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Speculative fiction
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- PS374 .F86 .S86 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Prose Prose fiction
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