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Flashes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the War of the Worlds Centennial, Nineteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

David Ketterer

First published 2004
Series Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #19
Publisher Praeger Publishers
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xi+254
ISBN 0313316074

  • Data from Greenwood Press
  • According to WorldCat, this was released as both "Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy" #94 and #107. There is no evidence that either of these numbers in the series were used for any other books, the series publisher has no books with 'unaccounted for' numbers, and there is no known difference between the data or contents for these two versions of the book.
  • OCLC has only partial contents.
  • Contents from Texas A&M Library.

Year Reviewer Publication
2006 Gary K. Wolfe Science Fiction Studies, July 2006

Page Title Author(s) Type
Introduction: "Flashes of Light" David Ketterer Essay
9 "God's ministers"?: Reinterpreting the Martian Invasion in The War of the Worlds Patrick Parrinder Essay
25 Artful Irony in The War of the Worlds Richard Law Essay
33 The War of the Worlds and the Disease of Imperialism Alexander C. Irvine Essay
43 The War of the Worlds, Wells, and the Fallacy of Empire John C. Hawley Essay
55 The Legendary Samurai: H. G. Wells and A Modern Utopia Claire Hirshfield Essay
65 "These are not the aliens you're looking for": Reflections on Race, Writing, and Theory in Contemporary Science Fiction Sylvia Kelso Essay
77 The Queer as Traitor, the Traitor as Queer: Denaturalizing Concepts of Nationhood, Species, and Sexuality Wendy Pearson Essay
93 The Humanism of C. M. Kornbluth's The Marching Morons Andy Duncan Essay
109 The Forever War (1972-75, 1975/76, 1997) and Forever Peace (1997): Joe Haldeman's Variations on a Theme Richard D. Erlich Essay
133 How to Make Utopia (Marginally) Credible Brian W. Aldiss Essay
141 The Fantasy of Everyday Life Peter Straub Essay
151 An Interview with Peter Straub Bernadette L. Bosky & Peter Straub Interview
167 Dispatches from the Invisible World: Trauma and Survival in Peter Straub's "Blue Rose" Stories Patricia Moir Essay
177 Drawing Lines in the Sand: The Fantastic Considered as an Instance of Liminality Judith Kerman Essay
187 Ann Radcliffe's "Real" Ghost: The Fantastic Supernatural in Gaston de Blondeville Robert F. Geary Essay
195 Power of Combination: Dracula and Secret Societies Katie Harse Essay
203 The Phantom Structure of Anatole France 's La Messe des Ombres: A Tale from Gascony Revisited, from Blade to France Juliette Gilman Essay
211 Fantastic Neomedievalism: The Image of the Middle Ages in Popular Fantasy Kim Selling Essay
219 From Death to Rebirth: A Short History of Dragons and Their Presence in Modern Fantasy Judith A. John Essay
229 Autogeddon Meets Archetype: Ballard's Novel Crash - The Collision Between the Dream Image and the Totem Object in the Death of Princess Diana Joan Bridgman Essay
239 The Spacecraft of Pablo Neruda and W. H. Auden Leonard A. Cheever Essay