Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction

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Introduction: Frontiers Old and New by Gary Westfahl Challenge of Space Space vs. Time by Jack Williamson Big Dumb Objects and Cosmic Enigmas: Love Affair between Space Fiction and the Transcendental by Peter Nicholls Flying to the Moon in French and American Science Fiction by Daniele Chatelain and George Slusser What Is This Thing Called Space Opera? by David Pringle On Final Frontier by Jack Williamson Cinema of Space True Frontier: Confronting and Avoiding the Realities of Space in American Science Fiction Films by Gary Westfahl Art of Technology: Contours of Space in the Science Fiction Film by Ira Konigsberg Space for Resistance: Disruption of the American Frontier Myth in 1950s Science Fiction Films by Susan A. George Way Station--The Motion Picture: A Possibly Premature Progress Report by Michael Cassutt Pioneers of Space Flight of Passage: Space Travel as the Metaphoric Crossing of the Threshold by Jeffrey M. Wallman Take Me to Your Leader: A New Future for First Contact Stories by Patrice Caldwell Space and the Frontier in Leslie F. Stone's The Fall of Mercury by Batya Weinbaum Space Opera without the Space: Culture Novels of Iain M. Banks by William H. Hardesty Re-Mythologizing Outer Space with C. S. Lewis and Cordwainer Smith by Robert Gorsch Painwise in Space: Psychology of Isolation in Cordwainer Smith and James P. Tiptree, Jr. by Alan C. Elms Other Frontiers Social Science in Space and Time by Clyde Wilcox Space, Future War, and the Frontier in American Nuclear Apocalypse Narrative by Patrick B. Sharp Men and Women in Separate Spaces by Lynn F. Williams Cyberspace: Moral Dimension by Janeen Webb New Worlds for Old by Donald M. Hassler Singularities: Perspectives on Space Comments on Space and Time by Gregory Benford, Jack Dann and Janeen Webb, James Gunn, and Howard V. Hendrix Sir Arthur C. Clarke: A Telephone Conversation with Eric S. Rabkin and Questions from Paul A. Carter, Gary Kern, Frank McConnell, Daryl F. Mallett, Melissa Mannion, Joseph D. Miller, and Gary Westfahl Index

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