دانلود کتاب Religion in Science Fiction: The Evolution of an Idea and the Extinction of a Genre

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Cover\nHalf-title\nTitle\nCopyright\nDedication\nContents\nIntroduction\nPart One\n 1 The Rules\n Defining religion\n A cognitive anthropology of narratives\n Defining genre science fiction\n 2 The Raw Materials of Science Fiction\n Poe: Another mother?\n Science fiction on a desert island\n U- and dys-topias\n Conclusion\n 3 Uncertain Paternity\n The fatherhood of Mary Shelley\n H. G. Wells’ social speculations\n Olaf Stapledon: The last Victorian\n Conclusion\nPart Two\n 4 Gernsback and the Pulps\n Walter Kateley, “The Fourteenth Earth” (1928)\n Fred Barclay, “The Troglodytes” (1930)\n Arthur Jones, “The Inquisition of 6061” (1933)\n Conclusion\n 5 Campbell’s “Social Science Fiction”\n Isaac Asimov, “Trends” (1939)\n Robert Heinlein, “If This Goes On—” (1940)\n L. Sprague de Camp, “Ultrasonic God” (1954)\n Lester del Rey, “Into Thy Hands” (1945)\n Conclusion\n 6 The Rise of the Novel\n Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End (1953)\n Walter Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)\n Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow (1955)\n George Stewart, Earth Abides (1949)\n James Blish, A Case of Conscience (1958)\n Conclusion\n 7 Poli-Sci-Fi\n Fritz Leiber, “When the Change-Winds Blow” (1964)\n Roger Zelazny, “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” (1963)\n Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)\n Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)\n Conclusion\n End of Part Two: Mid-point of the metanarrative\nPart Three\n 8 The Need to Believe\n Ray Bradbury, “The Messiah” (1973)\n Lawrence Manning, The Man Who Awoke (1975)\n Michael Moorcock, “Behold the Man” (1966)\n Jack L. Chalker, Midnight at the Well of Souls (1977)\n Conclusion\n 9 The Humanity of God (and Vice Versa)\n Piers Anthony, “Incarnations of Immortality” (1983–1990)\n James Morrow, Only Begotten Daughter (1990)\n Theodore Sturgeon, Godbody (1986)\n Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (1986), Folk of the Fringe (1989)\n William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine (1990)\n Conclusion\n 10 Acceptence\n David Weber, Honor of the Queen (1993)\n Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower (1993)\n Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow (1996)\n Conclusion\n End of Part Three: Conclusion of the metanarrative\nPart Four\n 11 The Extinction of SF (or, at least, gSF)\n Conclusion\n 12 Cultural Evolution\n The social use of narratives\n Memory\n Humor\n Whitehouse’s Modes\n Conclusion\nNotes\nReferences\nIndex