Essays presented at the Ninth Annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature held Apr. 10-12, 1987 at the University of California, Riverside Includes bibliographical references and index Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL Introduction: The concept of mindscape / George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin Nature : laws and surprises / Poul Anderson The survival of myth in science fiction / Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty "The swelling act" : the psychoanalytic geography of fantasy / Ronald J. Heckelman Metaphorical drive, or, Why we're such good liars / David Brin The playing fields of Eden / Frank McConnell Bookscapes : science fiction in the library of Babel / George E. Slusser Belief and other worlds : Ktesias and the founding of "Indian wonders" / James Romm Universal mindscape : the Gaia hypothesis in science fiction / Jack G. Voller Recent feminist utopias : world building and strategies for social change / Peter Fitting Time and vast eternities : landscapes of immortality in Orson Scott Card's fiction / Michael R. Collings Avenues of power : cities as mindscapes of politics / Pascal J. Thomas The two landscapes of J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island / Reinhart Lutz Neuroscience fiction : the Roman à synaptic cleft / Joseph D. Miller Islands in the sky : space stations in the universe of science fiction / Gary Westfahl What really happened on Mulberry Street? / Bill Lee Infinity in your back pocket : pocket universes and adjacent worlds / Max P. Belin Landscape and the Romantic dilemma : myth and metaphor in science-fiction narrative / William Lomax "The adjutant" : suggestions for maps in time and space from Greene to Johnson to Lem / Donald M. Hassler The ultimate mindscape : Dante's Paradiso / Jean-Pierre Barricelli Pascal's terror / Gregory Benford The revolutionary mindscape / Gary Kern Suggestions for a typology of mindscapes / David N. Samuelson. |
