These 17 original essays, written for the sixth Eaton Conference on Fantasy and Science Fiction, explore the uses, origins, and forms of future fiction. The contributors are George E. Slusser, Paul Alkon, Marie-Hélène Huet, Howard V. Hendrix, Bradford Lyau, Gregory Benford, José Manuel Mota, Frederik Pohl, George Hay, Colin Greenland, John Huntington, Elizabeth Maslen, W. M. S. and Claire Russell, T. A. Shippey, Kenneth V. Bailey, Gary Kern, and Frank McConnell.
The essays address the question Do we call up images of future societies in order to prepare for them, or to forestall their ever coming into existence?”
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George E. Slusser is Curator of the Eaton Collection at the University of California, Riverside.
Colin Greenland is a novelist and critic whose reviews appear regularly in the Times Literary Supplement.
Eric S. Rabkin is Professor of English at the University of Michigan.
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