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Title: Hard Science Fiction
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication Date: 1986
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0809312344
ISBN 13: 9780809312344
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st.
Condition: Good
Weight: 1.468 pounds

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These 16 essays from the fifth annual J.Lloyd Eaton Conference at the Univer�sity of California, Riverside, seek to come to grips with science fiction’s core, the core at which “science must ulti�mately seem to outweigh the fiction.”

Never before has hard SF been the topic of such extended discussion by such qualified people. The dialogue con�stitutes new (and potentially shocking to a traditional literary critic) modes of lit�erary criticism, modes that take into ac�count the impact of scientific specula�tion and method on our culture and on the ways our culture invents stories and myths.

Essayists include writer/scientist pro�fessors Robert L. Forward, David Brin, and Gregory Benford. Noted critics and writers with scientific backgrounds or interests include: James Gunn, Frank McConnell, George Guffey, John Hunt�ington, Paul Carter, Patricia Warrick, Paul Alkon, Robert M. Philmus, David Clayton, Eric S. Rabkin, Herbert Suss�man, Michael Collings, and George E. Slusser.

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George E. Slusser is Curator of the Eaton Collection at the University of California, Riverside.

Eric S. Rabkin is Professor of English at the University of Michigan.

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