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Storm Warnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future

Storm Warnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future

George Edgar Slusser
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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 question “Do we call up images of future societies in order to prepare for them, or to forestall their ever coming into existence?”
Language
English
Pages
296
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Release
April 01, 1987
ISBN
0809313766
ISBN 13
9780809313761

Storm Warnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future

George Edgar Slusser
3/5 ( ratings)
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 question “Do we call up images of future societies in order to prepare for them, or to forestall their ever coming into existence?”
Language
English
Pages
296
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Release
April 01, 1987
ISBN
0809313766
ISBN 13
9780809313761

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