Storm Warnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future

by Slusser, George E., Greenland, Colin, Rabkin, Eric S.

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ISBN-13: 9780809313761
ISBN: 0809313766
Publication Date: 1987
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press

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Slusser, George E., Greenland, Colin, Rabkin, Eric S.

SUMMARY

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-Helene Huet, Howard V. Hendrix, Bradford Lyau, Gregory Benford, Jose 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 question "Do we call up images of future societies in order to prepare for them, or to forestall their ever coming into existence?"Slusser, George E. is the author of 'Storm Warnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future', published 1987 under ISBN 9780809313761 and ISBN 0809313766.

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