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Styles of Creation: Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds

George Slusser & Eric S. Rabkin

First published 1992
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Jerry N. Uelsmann
Pages 271
Price $44.95
ISBN 0820314552

  • First printing by number line.
  • First Printing, December 1992.
  • Data entered from a HC edition with missing dust jacket. Month of publication, ISBN, and cover price determined from Amazon and the UGA website.
  • Proceedings of the J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science and Fantasy Literature (1989)
  • Text ends on 257 followed by two pages of brief author bios, and an Index.

Year Reviewer Publication
1993 Gary K. Wolfe Locus, #388 May 1993

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Reflections on Style in Science Fiction George Slusser Essay
24 Waging War with Reality David Brin Essay
30 Style, Fiction, Science Fiction: The Case of Philip K. Dick Carl Freedman Essay
47 Style, Substance, and Other Illusions Gregory Benford Essay
58 From "Nat" to "Nathan": The Liberal Arts Odyssey of a Pulpster Paul A. Carter Essay
79 The Voice of Cthulhu: Language Interaction in Contemporary Horror Fiction Karen A. Hohne Essay
88 The Soul of the Plot: The Aesthetics of Fin de Siècle Literature of Horror Susan J. Navarette Essay
117 Persuasive Worlds and the Rhetorics of Art and Science in Science Fiction Jefferson Peters Essay
128 Just How Frumious is a Bandersnatch? The exotic and the Ambiguous in Imaginative Literature Joseph D. Miller Essay
143 Camouflage and Sabotage: Satiric Maneuvers in the Fantastic Fiction of the German Democratic Republic Stephanie Hammer Essay
153 Utopian Effect / Utopian Pleasure Peter Fitting Essay
167 The "Missing Middle" of Science Fiction Charles Platt Essay
172 "Born of Misery": Stephen King's (En)Gendered Test Sharon Delmendo Essay
181 Styles Within Styles, or "Death of a Hack Writer": Herovit's World Reconsidered Reinhart Lutz Essay
193 Landscapes of British Science Fiction Patrick Parrinder Essay
205 In the Palace of Green Porcelain: Artifacts from the Museums of Science Fiction Robert Crossley Essay
221 Words of Wishdom: The Neologisms of Science Fiction Gary Westfahl Essay
245 Styles of Invisibility: Sustaining the Transparent in Contemporary Prose Semblances Brooks Landon Essay