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A member of the Pulitzer Prize jury, the late Frank McConnell helped science fiction gain standing as serious literature. His 16 essays herein were first presented as papers at the prestigious Eaton Conferences. Initially believing that science fiction is primarily one of many forms of storytelling, McConnell gradually recognized science fiction as a modern expression of Gnosticism, rejecting bodily concerns for an emphasis on spirituality.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Neil Gaiman
Introduction by Gary Westfahl
I. Frank McConnell B.C.E. (Before Coming to Eaton)
1. Born in Fire: The Ontology of the Monster
2. Song of Innocence: The Creature from the Black Lagoon
3. H.G. Wells: Utopia and Doomsday
4. Realist of the Fantastic: H.G. Wells about/in/on the Movies
II. Slouching Toward Bedlam: The Early Eaton Essays
5. Sturgeon's Law: First Corollary
6. Boring Dates: Reflections on the Apocalypse Game
7. Frames in Search of a Genre
8. From Astarte to Barbie and Beyond: The Serious History of Dolls
9. The Playing Fields of Eden
10. It's Only a Paper Moon: Fantasy and the Professors
11. "Turn That Shit Down!" Or, How to Market an Underground
III. Gnostic Lunch: The Later Eaton Essays
12. Alimentary, My Dear Watson: Food and Eating in Scientific and Mystery Fiction
13. You Bet Your Life: Death and the Storyteller
14. Seven Types of Chopped Liver: My Adventures in the Genre Wars
15. The Missionary Physician, from Asclepius to Kervorkian
16. The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: A Storytelling Animal in an Inhospitable World
Epilogue: Memories of Frank
Paul Alkon
Gregory Benford
Harold Bloom
Sheila Finch
Carl Freedman
Howard V. Hendrix
Bruce Kawin
Joseph D. Miller
Eric S. Rabkin
Mark Rose
George Slusser
Chapter Notes
A Bibliography of the Works of Frank McConnell
A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Works Cited in the Text
Index
