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Nonfiction Title:
Hard Science Fiction • nonfiction by
Eric S. Rabkin and George E. Slusser
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- vii • Introduction (Hard Science Fiction) • essay by Eric S. Rabkin and George E. Slusser [as by Eric S. Rabkin and George Slusser]
- 1 • When Science Writes the Fiction • essay by Robert L. Forward
- 8 • Running Out of Speculative Niches: A Crisis for Hard SF? • essay by David Brin
- 14 • Sturgeon's Law: First Corollary • essay by Frank McConnell
- 24 • The Unconscious City • essay by Eric S. Rabkin
- 45 • Hard-Core Science Fiction and the Illusion of Science • essay by John Huntington
- 58 • What Makes Hard Science Fiction "Hard?" • essay by David Clayton
- 70 • The Readers of Hard Science Fiction • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
- 82 • Is There a Technological Fix for the Human Condition? • (1984) • essay by Gregory Benford
- 99 • Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth and the Aesthetics of Extrapolation • essay by Paul K. Alkon [as by Paul Alkon]
- 121 • The Language of the Future in Victorian Science Fiction • essay by Herbert Sussman
- 131 • Science and Scientism in C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength • essay by Michael R. Collings [as by Michael Collings]
- 141 • "You Can Write Science Fiction If You Want To" • essay by Paul A. Carter
- 152 • Artificial Intelligence: Wild Imaginary Worlds, Wilder Realities • essay by Patricia S. Warrick
- 164 • Noise, Information, and Statistics in Stanislaw Lem's The Investigation • essay by George R. Guffey
- 177 • The Cybernetic Paradigms of Stanislaw Lem • essay by Robert M. Philmus
- 214 • The Ideal Worlds of Science Fiction • essay by George E. Slusser
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