• Publication: Patterns of the Fantastic IIPublication Record # 287993
• Author: Donald M. Hassler
• Date: 1984-12-00
• ISBN: 0-916732-87-8 [978-0-916732-87-5]
• Publisher: Starmont House
• Pub. Series: Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism
• Pub. Series #: 3
• Price:
  $8.95^?$: US dollar
• Pages: [2]+91
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Notes:

  • Data from Internet Archive scan of Borgo Press "edition" which was a resale of the Starmont House edition
  • "First Edition---December, 1984"
  • Entry dated with publication's stated date as per ISFDB standards
  • Secondary sources have a variety of dates (Clute/Nicholls & Chalker/Owings have 1984; BP 300, LoC, & Reginald3 have 1985; Locus1 has May 1985) so it may have been printed later than stated date
  • No number line
  • Cover design by Stephen E. Fabian per copyright page
  • Price from Locus1
  • "Selected papers presented at ConStellation (the 41st World Science Fiction Convention), held at Baltimore, Sept. 1-5, 1983" per copyright page
  • "Introduction--..." uses multiple hyphens (--) vs. em dash (—). It is listed as "Introduction: ..." in ToC
  • "Creation Unfinished;..." uses a semicolon on title page, but colon in ToC. Semicolon was probably a typo, but has been entered per publication as per ISFDB standards
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 84-2683
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 10753249

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• [2] • Preface (Patterns of the Fantastic II) • essay by Donald M. Hassler
• 1 • Introduction--Dangerous Tastes: Science and Fiction • essay by Donald M. Hassler
• 5 • The Hubris of Science: Wells' Time Traveller • essay by Merritt Abrash
• 13 • Ars Scientia = Ars Poetica • essay by Rosemarie Arbur
• 29 • Thornton Wilder as Fantasist and the Science-Fiction Anti-Paradism: The Evidence of the The Skin of Our Teeth • essay by Jared Lobdell
• 39 • The Mathematics in Science Fiction: Of Measure Zero • essay by Edward A. Boyno
• 45 • Two Views of the Sentient Computer: Gerrold's When HARLIE Was One and Ryan's The Adolescence of P-1 • essay by Constance M. Mellott
• 51 • Binary First Contact • essay by Lawrence I. Charters
• 59 • Creation Unfinished; Astronomical Realities in the Hainish Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin • essay by Thomas P. Dunn
• 69 • Private Eye: A Semiotic Comparison of the Film Blade Runner and the Book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep • essay by Judith B. Kerman
• 77 • From Pessimism to Sentimentality: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Becomes Blade Runner • essay by Philip Kaveny [as by Philip E. Kaveny]
• 81 • Fantastic Fictions at the Edge and in the Abyss: Genre Definitions and the Contemporary Cross-Genre Novel • essay by Janice Bogstad [as by Janice M. Bogstad]