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Essays in this volume demonstrate how science fiction can serve as a bridge between the sciences and the humanities. The essays show how early writers like Dante and Mary Shelley revealed a gradual shift toward a genuine understanding of science; how H.G. Wells first showed the possibilities of combining scientific and humanistic perspectives; how writers influenced by Gernsback's ideas, like Isaac Asimov, illustrated the ways that literature could interact with science and assist in its progress; and how more recent writers offer critiques of science and its practitioners.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Science Fiction at the Crossroads of Two Cultures
GARY WESTFAHL
I. OVERVIEWS: SCIENCE FICTION IN THE CONTEXT OF TWO CULTURES
1. Science Fiction and the Two Cultures: Reflections after the Snow-Leavis Controversy
CARL FREEDMAN
2. Science Fiction, Mediating Agent between C.P. Snow's Two Cultures: A Historical Interpretation
BRADFORD LYAU
3. Fighting Out of Context: Culture Wars Within and Without Science Fiction, from Snow to Sokal
HOWARD V. HENDRIX
4. A Tale of Two Cultures: Science Studies and Science Fiction
STEPHEN POTTS
5. The Rich and the Poor: Science Fiction and the Other Two Cultures
GARY WESTFAHL
6. The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: A Storytelling Animal in an Inhospitable World
FRANK MCCONNELL
7. Dimorphs and Doubles: J. D. Bernal's "Two Cultures" and the Transhuman Promise
GEORGE SLUSSER
II. CASE STUDIES: SCIENCE FICTION AS AN EXPRESSION OF TWO CULTURES
8. Discontinuity: Spaceships at the Abyss
CAROL MACKAY and KIRK HAMPTON
9. Gregory Benford's Against Infinity and the Literary, Historical and Geometric Formation of the Encyclopedic Circle of Knowledge
PEKKA KUUSISTO
10. Utopia and Utopianism in the Life, Work, and Thought of H. G. Wells
JOHN S. PARTINGTON
11. The Alien Eye: Imperialism and Otherness in H. G. Wells's The First Men in the Moon
GARETH DAVIES-MORRIS
12. Killer Robots, Laws of Robotics, and Pernicious Humans
GEORGE ATKINS
13. Philip K. Dick's Conversion Narrative
NOAH MASS
14. The Terror of Nature Not Understood: Science, Mysticism, and the Unknowable in Don DeLillo's Ratner's Star/I>
JAKE JAKAITIS
15. When the Caesura Ceases: Two Romanian Authors Gauge the Place of Writers in the Age of Computers
SHARON D. KING
16. A Creature of Double Vision
GREGORY BENFORD
Afterword: Science Fiction and the Playing Fields of Eaton
GARY WESTFAHL
Bibliography of Works Related to Science Fiction and the Two Cultures Debate
Bibliography of Other Works Cited in the Text
About the Contributors
Index
