Space and beyond : the frontier theme in science fiction / edited by Gary Westfahl.

Other author Westfahl, Gary.
Format Book
Publication InfoWestport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
Descriptionvii, 207 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesContributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 87, 0193-6875 ;
Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy no. 87. ^A514648
Contents Space vs. time / Jack Williamson -- Big dumb objects and cosmic enigmas: the love affair between space friction and the trancendental / Peter Nicholls -- Flying to the moon in French and American science fiction / Daniele Chatelain and George Slusser -- What is this thing called space opera? / David Pringle -- On the final frontier / Jack Williamson -- The true fontier: confronting and avaoiding realities of space in American science fiction films / Gary Westfahl -- The art of technology: contours of space in the science fiction film / Ira Konigsberg -- Space for resistance: the disruption of the American frontier myth in 1950s science fiction films / Susan A. George -- Way station - the motion picture: a possibly premature progress report / Michael Cassutt -- Flight of passage: space travel as the metaphoric crossing of the threshold / Jeffrey M. Wallmann -- Take me to your leader: a new future for first contact stories / Patrice Caldwell -- Space and the frontier in Leslie F. Stone's "the fall of mercury" / Batya Weinbaum -- Space opera without the space: the culture novels of Iain M. Banks / William H. Hardesty -- Re-mythologizing outer space with C.S. Lewis and Cordwainer Smith / Robert Gorsch -- Painwise in space: the psychology of isolation in Cordwainer Smith and James P. Tiptree, Jr. / Alan C. Elms -- Social science in space and time / Clyde Wilcox -- Space, future war, and the frontier in American nuclear apocalypse narrative / Patrick B. Sharp -- Men and women in separate spaces / Lynn F. Williams -- Cyberspace: the moral dimension / Janeen Webb -- New world for old / Donald M. Hassler -- Comments on space and time / Gregory Benford, Jack Dann, and Janeen Webb, and James Gunn, and Howard V. Hendrix -- Sir Arthur C. Clarke: A telephone conversation / Eric S. Rabkin with questions from Paul A. Carter, Gary Kern, Frank McConnell, Daryle F. Mallett, Melissa Mannion, Joseph D. Miller, and Gary Westfahl.
Local noteJoyner-See also manuscript material related to the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Ask in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Acquisitions source Joyner Schlobin copy Gift of Chip Sullivan, 2005
LCCN 99033689
ISBN0313308462 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780313308468 (alk. paper)

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