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Mindscapes: The Geographies of Imagined Worlds

George E. Slusser & Eric S. Rabkin

First published 1989
Series Proceedings of the J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature #9
Publisher Southern Illinois University Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xiii+302
ISBN 0809314541

First printing as per number line. No price on book. Artist not credited. Essays written specifically for the Ninth Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy, held Apr 10-12, 1987, at the University of California, Riverside. Designed by Quentin Diore. Production supervised by Linda Jorgensen-Buhman.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Nature: Laws and Surprises Poul Anderson Essay
16 The Survival of Myth in Science Fiction Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty Essay
34 "The Swelling Act": The Psychoanalytic Geography of Fantasy Ronald J. Heckelman Essay
60 Metaphorical Drive - Or Why We're Such Good Liars David Brin Essay
78 The Playing Fields of Eden Frank McConnell Essay
88 Bookscapes: Science Fiction in the Library of Babel George E. Slusser Essay
121 Belief and Other Worlds: Ktesias and the Founding of the "Indian Wonders" James Romm Essay
136 Universal Mindscape: The Gaia Hypothesis in Science Fiction Jack G. Voller Essay
155 Recent Feminist Utopias: World Building and Strategies for Social Change Peter Fitting Essay
164 Time and Vast Eternities; Landscapes of Immortality in Orson Scott Card's Fiction Michael R. Collings Essay
174 Avenues of Power: Cities as the Mindscapes of Politics Pascal J. Thomas Essay
185 The Two Landscapes of J. G. Ballard's Concrete Island Reinhart Lutz Essay
195 Neuroscience Fiction: The Roman à Synaptic Cleft Joseph D. Miller Essay
211 Islands in the Sky: Space Stations in the Universe of Science Fiction Gary Westfahl Essay
226 What Really Happened on Mulberry Street? Bill Lee Essay
234 Infinity in Your Back Pocket: Pocket Universes and Adjacent Worlds Max P. Belin Essay
242 Landscape and the Romantic Dilemma: Myth and Metaphor in Science-Fiction Literature William Lomax Essay
257 "The Adjutant": Suggestions for Maps in Time and Space from Greene to Johnson to Lem Donald M. Hassler Essay
267 The Ultimate Mindscape: Dante's Paradiso Jean-Pierre Barricelli Essay
271 Pascal's Terror Gregory Benford Essay
278 The Revolutionary Mindscape Gary Kern Essay
282 Suggestions for a Typology of Mindscapes David N. Samuelson Essay
ix The Concept of Mindscape George E. Slusser & Eric S. Rabkin Essay