• Publication: Styles of Creation: Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional WorldsPublication Record # 284754
• Authors: Eric S. Rabkin, George Slusser
• Date: 1992-12-00
• ISBN: 0-8203-1455-2 [978-0-8203-1455-6]
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Price:
  $44.95^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 271
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Notes:

  • 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.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 3 • Reflections on Style in Science Fiction • essay by George E. Slusser [as by George Slusser]
• 24 • Waging War with Reality • essay by David Brin
• 30 • Style, Fiction, Science Fiction: The Case of Philip K. Dick • essay by Carl Freedman
• 47 • Style, Substance, and Other Illusions • (1990) • essay by Gregory Benford
• 58 • From "Nat" to "Nathan": The Liberal Arts Odyssey of a Pulpster • essay by Paul A. Carter
• 79 • The Voice of Cthulhu: Language Interaction in Contemporary Horror Fiction • essay by Karen A. Hohne
• 88 • The Soul of the Plot: The Aesthetics of Fin de Siècle Literature of Horror • essay by Susan J. Navarette
• 117 • Persuasive Worlds and the Rhetorics of Art and Science in Science Fiction • essay by Jefferson Peters
• 128 • Just How Frumious is a Bandersnatch? The exotic and the Ambiguous in Imaginative Literature • essay by Joseph D. Miller
• 143 • Camouflage and Sabotage: Satiric Maneuvers in the Fantastic Fiction of the German Democratic Republic • essay by
  Stephanie Barbé Hammer^?Stephanie Barbe Hammer
  [as by Stephanie Hammer]
• 153 • Utopian Effect / Utopian Pleasure • essay by Peter Fitting
• 167 • The "Missing Middle" of Science Fiction • essay by Charles Platt
• 172 • "Born of Misery": Stephen King's (En)Gendered Test • essay by Sharon Delmendo
• 181 • Styles Within Styles, or "Death of a Hack Writer": Herovit's World Reconsidered • essay by Reinhart Lutz
• 193 • Landscapes of British Science Fiction • essay by Patrick Parrinder
• 205 • In the Palace of Green Porcelain: Artifacts from the Museums of Science Fiction • essay by Robert Crossley (variant of In the Palace of Green Porcelain: Artefacts from the Museums of Science Fiction 1991)
• 221 • Words of Wishdom: The Neologisms of Science Fiction • essay by Gary Westfahl
• 245 • Styles of Invisibility: Sustaining the Transparent in Contemporary Prose Semblances • essay by Brooks Landon