Mindscapes, the geographies of imagined worlds /
This work is comprised of eighteen essays plus four examples from the ninth annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature at the University of California, Riverside. The concept of mindscape, Slusser and Rabkin explain, allows critics to focus on a single fundamental pro...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The concept of mindscape / George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin
- Nature : laws and surprises / Poul Anderson
- The survival of myth in science fiction / Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
- "The swelling act" : the psychoanalytic geography of fantasy / Ronald J. Heckelman
- Metaphorical drive, or, Why we're such good liars / David Brin
- The playing fields of Eden / Frank McConnell
- Bookscapes : science fiction in the library of Babel / George E. Slusser
- Belief and other worlds : Ktesias and the founding of "Indian wonders" / James Romm
- Universal mindscape : the Gaia hypothesis in science fiction / Jack G. Voller
- Recent feminist utopias : world building and strategies for social change / Peter Fitting
- Time and vast eternities : landscapes of immortality in Orson Scott Card's fiction / Michael R. Collings
- Avenues of power : cities as mindscapes of politics / Pascal J. Thomas
- The two landscapes of J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island / Reinhart Lutz
- Neuroscience fiction : the Roman à synaptic cleft / Joseph D. Miller
- Islands in the sky : space stations in the universe of science fiction / Gary Westfahl
- What really happened on Mulberry Street? / Bill Lee
- Infinity in your back pocket : pocket universes and adjacent worlds / Max P. Belin
- Landscape and the Romantic dilemma : myth and metaphor in science-fiction narrative / William Lomax
- "The adjutant" : suggestions for maps in time and space from Greene to Johnson to Lem / Donald M. Hassler
- The ultimate mindscape : Dante's Paradiso / Jean-Pierre Barricelli
- Pascal's terror / Gregory Benford
- The revolutionary mindscape / Gary Kern
- Suggestions for a typology of mindscapes / David N. Samuelson.
