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Nonfiction Title:
Death and the Serpent: Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy • nonfiction by
Donald M. Hassler and Carl B. Yoke
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- 3 • Introduction (Death and the Serpent) • essay by Donald M. Hassler
- 7 • Why Was I Born If It Wasn't Forever? • essay by Carl B. Yoke
- 19 • Is There Life After Immortality? • essay by Merritt Abrash
- 29 • The Mechanics of Immortality • essay by Michael R. Collings
- 39 • Immortal Feminist Communities of Women: A Recent Idea in Science Fiction • essay by Marleen S. Barr [as by Marleen Barr]
- 49 • The Enchanter Awakes: Merlin in Modern Fantasy • essay by Raymond H. Thompson
- 57 • A Long Day's Dying: The Elves of J.R.R. Tolkien and Sylvia Townsend Warner • essay by Robert Crossley
- 71 • Deathless Humans in Horror Fiction • essay by Samuel H. Vasbinder
- 83 • Condemned to Life: "The Mortal Immortal" and "The Man Who Never Grew Young" • essay by Nick O'Donohoe
- 91 • The Sign of the Worm: Images of Death and Immortality in the Fiction of E. R. Eddison • essay by Helmut W. Pesch
- 103 • Olaf Stapledon and the Immortal Spirit • essay by Curtis C. Smith
- 115 • Growing Old with Robert A. Heinlein • essay by C. W. Sullivan, III
- 125 • H. P. Lovecraft's Immortal Culture • essay by John McInnis
- 135 • Dancing on the Tightrope: Immortality in Roger Zelazny • essay by Joseph Sanders
- 145 • A Question of Balance: Death and Immortality in Frank Herbert's Dune Series • essay by Susan McLean
- 153 • Larry Niven: Immortality Unstable Equilibrium • essay by Linda Rinker Dooley
- 163 • Double-Souled Man: Immortality and Transcendence in the Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr. • essay by Mark Siegel
- 175 • The Disease of Longevity: James Gunn's The Immortals • essay by Theodore Krulik
- 185 • The Jaded Eternals: Immortality and Imperfection in Jack Vance's To Live Forever • essay by Gregory M. Shreve
- 193 • Immortal Man and Mortal Overlord: The Case for Intertexuality • essay by Stephen H. Goldman
- 209 • List of Works on Immortality in Science Fiction • essay by Carl B. Yoke
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