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Clockwork Worlds: Mechanized Environments in SF

Richard D. Erlich & Thomas P. Dunn

First published 1984
Publisher Greenwood Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xiii+369
ISBN 0313230269

Contento misspells the editor's name as "Richard D. Ehrlich"

First printing as per full number line. {{PV|Hauck}}'s copy is without dj, so no artist credited. No price on book, some sources give $35.00, origin of pub month unknown. Note that C. W. Sullivan, III is given as Charles Wm. Sullivan III (regularized here).

Year Reviewer Publication
1984 George Hay Foundation, #32 November 1984

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Introduction (Clockwork Worlds: Mechanized Environments in SF) Arthur O. Lewis Essay
21 Dante's Hell as an Ideal Mechanical Environment Merritt Abrash Essay
27 Cog-Work: The Organization of Labor in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and in Later Utopian Fiction Reimer Jehmlich Essay
47 E. M. Forster's 'The Machine Stops': Liberal-Humanist Hostility to Technology Charles Elkins Essay
63 Origins of Dystopia: When the Sleeper Wakes and We Alexandra Aldridge Essay
85 Man as Robot: The Taylor System in We Gorman Beauchamp Essay
97 Harlan Ellison and Robert A. Heinlein: The Paradigm Makers Charles Wm. Sullivan, III Essay
105 The Programmed Utopia of R. A. Lafferty's Past Master William H. Hardesty, III Essay
115 Elusive Utopias: Societies as Mechanisms in the Early Fiction of Philip K. Dick Merritt Abrash Essay
125 The Theme of Mechanization in Player Piano Thomas P. Hoffman Essay
137 Pilgrim's Progress: Is Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Winning His War with Machines? Lawrence Broer Essay
163 Merging Madness: Rollerball as a Cautionary Tale Elizabeth Anne Hull Essay
183 Electric Eve: Images of Female Computers in Science Fiction Valerie Broege Essay
195 Love and the Technocracy: Dehumanization in Social Welfare Phyllis J. Day Essay
213 Clockwork Reels: Mechanized Environments in Science Fiction Films Leonard Heldreth Essay
235 Machines Are Good to Think: A Structural Analysis of Myth and Mechanization Daniel W. Ingersoll, Jr. Essay
263 List of Works Useful for the Study of Mechanized Environments in SF Thomas P. Dunn & Richard D. Erlich Essay
xi Preface (Clockwork Worlds: Mechanized Environments in SF) uncredited Essay