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