• Publication: Flashes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the War of the Worlds Centennial, Nineteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the ArtsPublication Record # 342167
• Author: David Ketterer
• Date: 2004-12-30
• ISBN: 0-313-31607-4 [978-0-313-31607-4]
• Publisher: Praeger Publishers
• Pub. Series: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Pub. Series #: 107
• Pages: xi+254
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Notes:

  • Data from Greenwood Press
  • According to WorldCat, this was released as both "Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy" #94 and #107. There is no evidence that either of these numbers in the series were used for any other books, the series publisher has no books with 'unaccounted for' numbers, and there is no known difference between the data or contents for these two versions of the book.
  • OCLC has only partial contents.
  • Contents from Texas A&M Library.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 44818275

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• Introduction: "Flashes of Light" • essay by David Ketterer
• 9 • "God's ministers"?: Reinterpreting the Martian Invasion in The War of the Worlds • essay by Patrick Parrinder
• 25 • Artful Irony in The War of the Worlds • essay by Richard Law
• 33 • The War of the Worlds and the Disease of Imperialism • essay by Alex Irvine [as by Alexander C. Irvine]
• 43 • The War of the Worlds, Wells, and the Fallacy of Empire • essay by John C. Hawley
• 55 • The Legendary Samurai: H. G. Wells and A Modern Utopia • essay by Claire Hirshfield
• 65 • "These are not the aliens you're looking for": Reflections on Race, Writing, and Theory in Contemporary Science Fiction • essay by Sylvia Kelso
• 77 • The Queer as Traitor, the Traitor as Queer: Denaturalizing Concepts of Nationhood, Species, and Sexuality • essay by Wendy Gay Pearson [as by Wendy Pearson]
• 93 • The Humanism of C. M. Kornbluth's The Marching Morons • essay by Andy Duncan
• 109 • The Forever War (1972-75, 1975/76, 1997) and Forever Peace (1997): Joe Haldeman's Variations on a Theme • essay by Richard D. Erlich
• 133 • How to Make Utopia (Marginally) Credible • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
• 141 • The Fantasy of Everyday Life • essay by Peter Straub
• 151 • An Interview with Peter Straub • interview of Peter Straub • interview by Bernadette Lynn Bosky [as by Bernadette L. Bosky]
• 167 • Dispatches from the Invisible World: Trauma and Survival in Peter Straub's "Blue Rose" Stories • essay by Patricia Moir
• 177 • Drawing Lines in the Sand: The Fantastic Considered as an Instance of Liminality • essay by Judith B. Kerman [as by Judith Kerman]
• 187 • Ann Radcliffe's "Real" Ghost: The Fantastic Supernatural in Gaston de Blondeville • essay by Robert F. Geary
• 195 • Power of Combination: Dracula and Secret Societies • essay by Katie Harse
• 203 • The Phantom Structure of Anatole France 's La Messe des Ombres: A Tale from Gascony Revisited, from Blade to France • essay by Juliette Gilman
• 211 • Fantastic Neomedievalism: The Image of the Middle Ages in Popular Fantasy • essay by Kim Selling
• 219 • From Death to Rebirth: A Short History of Dragons and Their Presence in Modern Fantasy • essay by Judith A. John
• 229 • Autogeddon Meets Archetype: Ballard's Novel Crash - The Collision Between the Dream Image and the Totem Object in the Death of Princess Diana • essay by Joan Bridgman
• 239 • The Spacecraft of Pablo Neruda and W. H. Auden • essay by Leonard A. Cheever