Hard science fiction / edited by George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin.

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

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