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Below is a list of the contests of the available proceedings volumes.
Deep Thoughts
Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XI, February 10–13, 1993
Edited by Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer
Contents
Acknowledgments v
Contributors vii–ix
Introduction
Marny K. Parkin, Editor xi–xii
The Distance to the Future: Reworking and Temporally Inverting
Bakhtin’s “Novel and Epic”
Bakhtin’s “Novel and Epic”
Brian Evenson, University of Washington1–21
Thresholds of Recognition and Dismay: Portrayals of the
Feminine Other in Two Nineteenth-Century Works of Symbolic Fantasy
Feminine Other in Two Nineteenth-Century Works of Symbolic Fantasy
Lisa Stapleton Melanson, University of Massachusetts–Amherst 23–36
The Popcorn Theory of Success
Kevin J. Anderson, Guest of Honor 37–53
Spin Doctor and Early Post-feminist: Marion Zimmer Bradley
Jane Thompson, Mount Mary College 55–65
The Wayward Automaton: Reconstructing Identity
Phillip Johansen, Cornell University 67–77
Where I Get My Ideas
Barbara Hambly, Guest of Honor79–92
Where No Woman Has Gone Before:
A Sociolinguistic Study of Gender Roles in Star Trek
A Sociolinguistic Study of Gender Roles in Star Trek
Jennifer Rey, Brigham Young University 93–105
Science Fiction as the Classroom Text: Teaching Alternate Worlds
Jane Thompson, Mount Mary College 107–50
Symbolic Action in Beowulf:
Using Kenneth Burke’s Pentad to Understand Beowulf’s Motives
Using Kenneth Burke’s Pentad to Understand Beowulf’s Motives
Gary Layne Hatch, Brigham Young University 151–69
The Book of Mormon: Artifact or Artifice?
Orson Scott Card, Guest of Honor 171–206
Zelazny’s Merlin and the Wheel of Life
Norman Peercy, University of Northern Colorado 209–15
Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XII, February 16–19, 1994
Edited by Steve Setzer and Marny K. Parkin
Contents
Acknowledgements v
Contributors vii–viii
Introduction
Steve Setzer, Editor ix–x
Psycho-literary Devices in Zelazny’s Madwand
Norman Peercy, University of Northern Colorado 1–13
When Science Writes the Fiction
Robert L. Forward, Guest of Honor15–31
Science Fiction and the Marvelous: Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun and
Roger Zelazny’s This Immortal
Roger Zelazny’s This Immortal
Jonathan Langford, University of California–Riverside 35–58
Breaking the Rules without Knowing It
Katherine Kurtz, Guest of Honor 59–77
Twenty-First Space Propulsion
Robert L. Forward, Guest of Honor 70–112
“When It Comes, It’s Wonderful”: Art versus Craft in Writing
Roger Zelazny, Guest of Honor113–29
Organizational Devices in the Darkover Novels
Norman Peercy, University of Colorado–Boulder 131–41
Proceedings of Life the Universe, & Everything XIII, February 1–4, 1995
Edited by Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer
Contents
Acknowledgements iv
Contributors v–vi
“And on His Crest Sat Horror Plum’d”: Some Elements of Fantasy,
Science Fiction, and the Horror in Paradise Lost
Science Fiction, and the Horror in Paradise Lost
Michael R. Collings, Pepperdine University 7–24
Deconstructing Landscapes
Patricia A. McKellip, Guest of Honor 25–33
Why Companions Scream: Gender in Dr. Who
Tony Whitt, Louisiana State University 35–53
Allegories of Change
Lois McMaster Bujold, Guest of Honor 55–67
The Price of Knowledge in Patricia McKellip’s Riddle-Master Trilogy
Nancy Lynn Hayes, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory 69–87
Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XIV, January 31–February 3, 1996
Edited by Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer
Contents
Acknowledgmentsv
Contributorsvii–viii
Nobody Here Still But Us Orcs . . . :
An Incomplete History of Life, the Universe, & (Mostly) Everything
An Incomplete History of Life, the Universe, & (Mostly) Everything
Lee Allred, Chairix–xiii
The Problem of Portraying Good in Fiction
Dave Wolverton, Guest of Honor 1–15
Mistakes, Misreadings, and Attitudes
Patricia C. Wrede, Guest of Honor 17–23
Writing the Fantastic and Religion:
Some Ruminations on the Role of Poetry
Some Ruminations on the Role of Poetry
Michael R. Collings, Pepperdine University25–41
Saints and Scientists
Richard T. Wooton, Arizona State University 43–52
On Moral Fiction: The Gardnerian Ideal and the Mormon Poetic
Lee Allred53–73
Jefferson, Whiggery, and the Nature of Good
in American Science Fiction and Fantasy
in American Science Fiction and Fantasy
Steve Setzer, Brigham Young University75–82
Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XV, February 27–March 1, 1997
Edited by Steve Setzer and Marny K. Parkin
Contents
Acknowledgements v
Contributors vii–x
Introduction
Steve Stezer xi
Bonding with the Aliens Saves the Day
Judith Moffet, Guest of Honor 1–17
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Orson Scott Card
Eugene England, Utah Valley State College 19–41
An Instance of Seventeenth-Century Science Fiction,
Or Magaret Cavendish’s Blazing World and the Emancipation of Imagination
Or Magaret Cavendish’s Blazing World and the Emancipation of Imagination
Dr. Brandie R. Siegfried, Brigham Young University 43–61
The Mists of Avalon: The Use of Polarity in Elevating Women’s Roles
Dr. Norman Peercy, University of Colorado—Greeley63–73
Hypothetical Intelligent Plants, Or What Kind of Terminal Could a Tulip Use?
Dr. Paul E. Black, Brigham Young University75–86
Lead Us Not into Redemption
Nancy Lynn Hayes, Idaho National Engineering and
Environmental Laboratory87–113
Environmental Laboratory87–113
What Do We Need Monsters For?
Dr. Edward B Irving Jr., University of Pennsylvania
(prof. emeritus) 115–29
(prof. emeritus) 115–29
Orson Scott Card: An Approach to Mythopoeic Fiction
Dr. Michael R. Collings, Pepperdine University 131–56
Abstracts
The Use of Mythic and Fantastic in Cynthia Ozick’s Fiction
Batia Boe Stolar, Concordia University 157–58
The Boston Twenty-Four-Hour Science Fiction Film Marathon:
Like Woodstock Only Indoors and without the Music
Like Woodstock Only Indoors and without the Music
Sophie Glazier, Indiana University/Perdue University at Fort Wayne 159–60
The Great Goddess and Aspects of Fate
Brian Lackey, Indiana University/Perdue University at Fort Wayne160
Proceedings of Life the Universe & Everything XVI, March 12–14, 1998
Edited by Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer
Contents
Acknowledgements v
Contributors vii–ix
On Imagination and Faith
Dr. Van C. Gessel, Brigham Young University 1–5
Creating old Favorites: What Makes A Classic?
Thoughts on How We Create Memorable Fiction
Thoughts on How We Create Memorable Fiction
Sherwood Smith, Guest of Honor 7–19
Why (I Hope That) the Nazi Fascination with Norse Myth Was a Poor Fit
Sandra Ballif Straubhaar, Brigham Young University 21–30
One Brief, Shining Moment: Camelot, Arthur, and Nauvoo
Lee Allred 31–37
Sensing the Alien Mind: Sensory Processing and the Concept of the Alien
Elizabeth Moon, Guest of Honor 39–58
The Use of the Mythic and the Fantastic in Cynthia Ozick’s Fiction
Batia Boe Stolar, Concordia University 59–80
Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XVII, March 11–13, 1999
Edited by Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer
Contents
Acknowledgmentsv
Contributorsvii
The “Death” of Science Fiction (?)
Kevin J. Anderson1–7
Kevin J. Anderson1–7
Mystic Ritual in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Tombs of Atuan
Dr. Zina Petersen9–20
Dr. Zina Petersen9–20
Golems and Dybbuks:
The Supernatural in Yiddish Cultural History
Dr. Paul E. Kerry21–26
The Supernatural in Yiddish Cultural History
Dr. Paul E. Kerry21–26
Consider the Source
Rebecca Moesta27–40
Rebecca Moesta27–40
Old English Eligiac Imagry in
The Wanderer and J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Miranda Wilcox41–68
The Wanderer and J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Miranda Wilcox41–68
Hidden Knowledge:
Motivating Self-Study and Education through
Science Fiction Role-Playing Games
Marcus Wilkinson69–86
Motivating Self-Study and Education through
Science Fiction Role-Playing Games
Marcus Wilkinson69–86
The Shadow Matrix: Archetypes Galore
Dr. Norman Peercy87–104
Dr. Norman Peercy87–104
