- Publication: Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and FantasyPublication Record # 348696
- Authors: Eric S. Rabkin, George Slusser, Gary Westfahl
- Date: 1996-07-00
- ISBN: 0-8203-1732-2 [978-0-8203-1732-8]
- Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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Price: $40.00?$: US dollar
- Pages: 243
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Format: hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
- Type: NONFICTION
Nonfiction Title:
Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy • 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)
- "No Woman Born": Immortality and Gender in Feminist Science Fiction • essay by Robin Roberts
- "We Are All Kin": Relatedness, Mortality, and the Paradox of Human Immortality • essay by Judith Lee
- A Roll of the Ice: Cryonics as a Gamble • essay by Gregory Benford [as by Sterling Blake]
- Alienation as the Price of Immortality: The Tithonus Syndrome in Science Fiction and Fantasy • essay by S. L. Rosen
- 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
- Cosmifantasies: Humanistic Visions of Immortality in Italian Science Fiction • essay by Terri Frongia
- Dual Immortality, No Kids: The Dink Link between Birthlessness and Deathlessness in Science Fiction • essay by Howard V. Hendrix
- From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Immortality and The Immortal • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
- How Cyberspace Signifies: Taking Immortality Literally • essay by N. Katherine Hayles
- IBMortality: Putting the Ghost in the Machine • essay by Stephen Potts
- Immortality: The Self-Defeating Fantasy • essay by Eric S. Rabkin
- Living Dolls: Images of Immortality in Children's Literature • essay by Lynne Lundquist
- Living Forever or Dying in the Attempt: Mortality and Immortality in Science and Science Fiction • essay by Joseph D. Miller
- Longevity as Class Struggle • essay by Fredric Jameson
- Philosophical Models of Immortality in Science Fiction • essay by Ruth Curl and John Martin Fischer
- The Biopoetics of Immortality: A Darwinist Perspective on Science Fiction • essay by Brett Cooke
- The Immortality Myth and Technology • essay by Steven B. Harris
- The Science Fiction of the House of Saul: From Frankenstein's Monster to Lazarus Long • essay by Barry Crawford
- You Bet Your Life: Death and the Storyteller • essay by Frank McConnell
- Zen and the Art of Mario Mantenance: Cycles of Death and Rebirth in Video Games and Children's Subliterature • essay by Gary Westfahl
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