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050 00 $aPN3433.6$b.M4 1982
245 04 $aThe Mechanical God, machines in science fiction /$cedited by Thomas P. Dunn and Richard D. Erlich.
260 0 $aWestport, Conn. :$bGreenwood Press,$c1982.
300 $axiv, 284 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aContributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy,$x0193-6875 ;$vno. 1
504 $aBibliography: p. [225]-273.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Robots: low-voltage ontological currents / Brian W. Aldiss -- Pt. 1: Authors -- "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 Issac 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 -- Pt. 2: Children's science fiction -- From little buddy to big brother: the icon of the robot in children's science fiction / Margaret P. Esmonde -- Pt. 3: Attributes --
505 0 $aPortraits 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. -- Pt. 4: Cyborgs -- 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 --
505 0 $aList of works useful for the study of machines in science fiction / Thomas P. Dunn and Richard D. Erlich -- Index / Dee Dunn.
650 0 $aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aConscious automata in literature.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
700 1 $aDunn, Thomas P.
700 1 $aErlich, Richard D.
776 08 $iOnline version:$tMechanical God, machines in science fiction.$dWestport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1982$w(OCoLC)557879887
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