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Hard science fiction /

Hard science fiction / edited by George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin. - Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, �1986. - 1 online resource (xvi, 284 pages). - Alternatives . - Alternatives. .

Proceedings of the fifth Eaton Conference on Fantasy and Science Fiction, held April 9-10, 1983, at the University of California, Riverside.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-272).

When science writes the fiction / Running out of speculative niches : a crisis for hard science fiction? / Sturgeon's law : first corollary / Unconscious city / Hard-core science fiction and the illusion of science / What makes hard science fiction "hard?" / Readers of hard science fiction / Is there a technological fix for the human condition? / Thomas Burnet's sacred theory of the Earth and the aesthetics of extrapolation / Language of the future in Victorian science fiction / Science and scientism in C.S. Lewis's That hideous strength / "You can write science fiction if you want to" / Artificial intelligence : wild imaginary worlds, wilder realities / Noise, information, and statistics in Stanislaw Lem's The investigation / Cybernetic paradigms of Stanislaw Lem / Ideal worlds of science fiction / Robert L. Forward -- David Brin -- Frank McConnell -- Eric S. Rabkin -- John Huntington -- David Clayton -- James Gunn -- Gregory Benford -- Paul Alkon -- Herbert Sussman -- Michael Collings -- Paul A. Carter -- Patricia S. Warrick -- George R. Guffey -- Robert M. Philmus -- George E. Slusser.

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Science fiction--Congresses.
TRAVEL--Special Interest--Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM--General.
Science fiction.
Languages & Literatures.
Literature - General.


Electronic books.
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PN3433.2 / .H37 1986eb

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