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The Mechanical God: Machines in Science Fiction

Thomas P. Dunn & Richard D. Erlich

First published 1982
Publisher Greenwood Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Mary Seehausen Bressler
Pages xiv+284
ISBN 0313222746

Apparent first edition. Initial printing as per full number line. Data from OCLC/WorldCat and Reginald-3; there's no price on the book and the source of the month of publication is unknown (only states "First published in 1982").

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Robots: Low-Voltage Ontological Currents Brian Aldiss Essay
13 "Read History": Dehumanization in Karel Capek's R.U.R. Barbara Bengels Essay
19 C. S. Lewis's Mechanical Fiends in That Hideous Strength Rudy S. Spraycar Essay
27 Robot Ethics and Robot Parody: Remarks on Isaac Asimov's I, Robot and Some Critical Essays and Short Stories by Stanislaw Lem Christian W. Thomsen Essay
41 Machines and the Meaning of Human in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Thomas L. Wymer Essay
53 "Sixty Billion Gigabits": Liberation Through Machines in Frederik Pohl's Gateway and Beyond the Blue Event Horizon Terri Paul Essay
63 What a Piece of Work Is a Man: Mechanical Gods in the Fiction of Roger Zelazny Carl B. Yoke Essay
75 What the Machine Teaches: Walter Tevis's Mockingbird Donald M. Hassler Essay
85 From Little Buddy to Big Brother: The Icon of the Robot in Children's Science Fiction Margaret P. Esmonde Essay
101 Portraits of Machine Consciousness Russell Letson Essay
109 Neuron and Junction: Patterns of Thought in "The Andromeda Strain" Peter S. Alterman Essay
117 Loving That Machine, or, The Mechanical Egg: Sexual Mechanisms and Metaphors in Science Fiction Films Donald Palumbo Essay
129 In Search of the Ultimate Weapon: The Fighting Machine in Science Fiction Novels and Films Leonard G. Heldreth Essay
153 How Machines Become Human: Process and Attribute Robert Reilly Essay
167 Tools/Mirrors: The Humanization of Machines Joe Sanders Essay
177 Mechanisms of Morality: Philosophical Implications of Selected (A)Moral Science Fiction Machines William M. Schuyler, Jr. Essay
193 Human, More or Less: Man-Machine Communion in Samuel R. Delany's Nova and Other Science Fiction Stories Andrew Gordon Essay
203 The Cyborg (R)evolution in Science Fiction Anne H. Jones Essay
211 Instrumentalities of the Body: The Mechanization of the Human Form in Science Fiction Gary K. Wolfe Essay
225 List of Works Useful for the Study of Machines in Science Fiction Thomas P. Dunn & Richard D. Erlich Essay
275 Index (The Mechanical God) Dee Dunn Essay
xi Preface (The Mechanical God) Richard D. Erlich & Thomas P. Dunn Essay