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Nonfiction Title:
Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy • [Proceedings of the J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature • 12] • nonfiction by Eric S. Rabkin and George E. Slusser and Gary Westfahl [as by Eric S. Rabkin and George Slusser and Gary Westfahl]
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- ix • Immortality: The Self-Defeating Fantasy • essay by Eric S. Rabkin
- 3 • Philosophical Models of Immortality in Science Fiction • essay by Ruth Curl and John Martin Fischer
- 13 • From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Immortality and The Immortal • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
- 24 • Longevity as Class Struggle • essay by Fredric Jameson
- 45 • The Immortality Myth and Technology • essay by Steven B. Harris
- 68 • A Roll of the Ice: Cryonics as a Gamble • essay by Gregory Benford [as by Sterling Blake]
- 77 • Living Forever or Dying in the Attempt: Mortality and Immortality in Science and Science Fiction • essay by Joseph D. Miller
- 90 • The Biopoetics of Immortality: A Darwinist Perspective on Science Fiction • essay by Brett Cooke
- 102 • IBMortality: Putting the Ghost in the Machine • essay by Stephen Potts
- 111 • How Cyberspace Signifies: Taking Immortality Literally • essay by N. Katherine Hayles
- 125 • Alienation as the Price of Immortality: The Tithonus Syndrome in Science Fiction and Fantasy • essay by S. L. Rosen
- 135 • "No Woman Born": Immortality and Gender in Feminist Science Fiction • essay by Robin Roberts
- 145 • The Science Fiction of the House of Saul: From Frankenstein's Monster to Lazarus Long • essay by Barry Crawford
- 158 • Cosmifantasies: Humanistic Visions of Immortality in Italian Science Fiction • essay by Terri Frongia
- 170 • "We Are All Kin": Relatedness, Mortality, and the Paradox of Human Immortality • essay by Judith Lee
- 183 • Dual Immortality, No Kids: The Dink Link between Birthlessness and Deathlessness in Science Fiction • essay by Howard V. Hendrix
- 190 • Clifford D. Simak's Way Station: The Hero as Archetypal Science Fiction Writer, the Science Fiction Writer as Seeker fir Immortality • essay by Bud Foote
- 201 • Living Dolls: Images of Immortality in Children's Literature • essay by Lynne Lundquist
- 211 • Zen and the Art of Mario Mantenance: Cycles of Death and Rebirth in Video Games and Children's Subliterature • essay by Gary Westfahl
- 221 • You Bet Your Life: Death and the Storyteller • essay by Frank McConnell
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