Hard Science Fiction (Alternatives)

By Adjunct Professor George E Slusser PhD

These 16 essays from the fifth annual J.Lloyd Eaton Conference at the Univer­sity of California, Riverside, seek to come to grips with science fiction's core, the core at which "science must ulti­mately seem to outweigh the fiction."

Never before has hard SF been the topic of such extended discussion by such qualified people. The dialogue con­stitutes new (and potentially shocking to a traditional literary critic) modes of lit­erary criticism, modes that take into ac­count the impact of scientific specula­tion and method on our culture and on the ways our culture invents stories and myths.

Essayists include writer/scientist pro­fessors Robert L. Forward, David Brin, and Gregory Benford. Noted critics and writers with scientific backgrounds or interests include: James Gunn, Frank McConnell, George Guffey, John Hunt­ington, Paul Carter, Patricia Warrick, Paul Alkon, Robert M. Philmus, David Clayton, Eric S. Rabkin, Herbert Suss­man, Michael Collings, and George E. Slusser.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809312344
• ISBN13: 9780809312344
• Release Date: February 1986
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.9" x 5.5"