TY - BOOK AU - Slusser,George Edgar AU - Rabkin,Eric S. ED - Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature TI - Hard science fiction T2 - Alternatives SN - 0585186553 AV - PN3433.2 .H37 1986eb U1 - 809.3/876 19 PY - 1986/// CY - Carbondale, Ill. PB - Southern Illinois University Press KW - Science fiction KW - Congresses KW - TRAVEL KW - Special Interest KW - Literary KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - General KW - fast KW - Languages & Literatures KW - hilcc KW - Literature - General KW - Electronic books KW - Conference papers and proceedings N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=22320 ER -