Contributor
Dunn, Thomas P.
Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1982.
Descriptionxiv, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Includes index.
Note:"Read History": Dehumanization in Karel Capek's R.U.R. / Barbara Bengels. - C. S. Lewis's Mechanical Fiends in That Hideous Strength / Rudy S. Spraycar. - Robot Ethics and Robot Parody: Remarks on Isaac Asimov's I, Robot and Some Critical Essays and Short Stories by Stanislaw Lem / Christian W. Thomsen. - Machines and the Meaning of Human in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. / Thomas L. Wymer. - "Sixty Billion Gigabits": Liberation Through Machines in Frederik Pohl's Gateway and Beyond the Blue Event Horizon / Terri Paul. - What a Piece of Work Is a Man: Mechanical Gods in the Fiction of Roger Zelazny / Carl B. Yoke. - What the Machine Teaches: Walter Tevis's Mockingbird / Donald M. Hassler. - From Little Buddy to Big Brother: The Icon of the Robot in Children's Science Fiction / Margaret P. Esmonde. - Portraits of Machine Consciousness / Russell Letson. - Neuron and Junction: Patterns of Thought in The Andromeda Strain / Peter S. Alterman. - Loving that machine: or, The Mechanical Egg: Sexual Mechanisms and Metaphors in Science Fiction Films / Donald Palumbo. - In Search of the Ultimate Weapon: The Fighting Machine in Science Fiction Novels and Films / Leonard G. Heldreth. - How Machines Become Human: Process and Attribute / Robert Reilly. - Tools/Mirrors: The Humanization of Machines / Joe Sanders. - Mechanisms of Morality: Philosophical Implications of Selected (A)Moral Science Fiction Machines / William M. Schuyler, Jr. - Human, More or Less: Man-Machine Communion in Samuel R. Delany's Nova and Other Science Fiction Stories / Andrew Gordon. - The Cyborg (R)Evolution in Science Fiction / Anne Hudson Jones. - Instrumentalities of the Body: The Mechanization of Human Form in Science Fiction / Gary K. Wolfe.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. [225]-273.
