Flashes of the Fantastic Selected Essays from the War of the Worlds Centennial, Nineteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Subjects:

• Literature » Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Literature » English Literature

Reviews:

• [T]hese volumes will continue to serve, for a long time to come, as a valuable chronicle of a remarkable annual conference.
  —Science Fiction Studies 2006
• [T]hese essays are solid evidence of the intelligent, serious interest in H.G. Wells, in science fiction, and in fantasy.
  —English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 2006

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: "Flashes of Light" by David Ketterer
• THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
• "God's Ministers"? Reinterpreting the Martian Invasion in The War of the Worlds, by Patrick Parrinder
• Artful Irony in The War of the Worlds, by Richard Law
• The War of the Worlds and the Disease of Imperialism, by Alexander C. Irvine
• The War of the Worlds, Wells, and the Fallacy of Empire, by John C. Hawley
• H. G. WELLS AND SCIENCE FICTION
• The Legendary: H. G. Wells and A Modern Utopia , by Claire Hirshfield
• "These Are Not the Aliens You're Looking For": Reflections on Race, Writing, and Theory in Contemporary Science Fiction, by Sylvia Kelso
• The Queer as Traitor, the Traitor as Queer: Denaturalizing Concepts of Nationhood, Species, and Sexuality, by Wendy Pearson
• The Humanism of C. M. Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons", by Andy Duncan
• The Forever War (1972-75, 1975/76, 1997) and Forever Peace (1997): Joe Haldeman's Variations on a Theme, by Richard D. Erlich
• How to Make Utopia (Marginally) Credible, by Brian W. Aldiss
• THE ART OF PETER STRAUB
• The Fantasy of Everyday Life, by Peter Straub
• An Interview with Peter Straub, by Bernadette Bosky
• Dispatches from the Invisible World: Trauma and Survival in Straub's "Blue Rose" Stories, by Patricia Moir
• FANTASY, REALITY, POETRY-MORE FLASHES OF INSIGHT
• Drawing Lines in the Sand: The Fantastic Considered as an Instance of Liminality, by Judith Kerman
• Anne Radcliffe's "Real" Ghost: The Fantastic Supernatural in Gaston de Blondeville, by Robert F. Geary
• "Power of Combination": Dracula and Secret Societies, by Katie Harse
• The Phantom Structure of Anatole France's "La Messe des Ombres": A Tale from Gascony Revisited, from Bladé to France, by Juliette Gilman
• "Fantastic Neomedievalism": The Image of the Middle Ages in Popular Fantasy, by Kim Selling
• From Death to Rebirth: A Short History of Dragons and Their Presence in Modern Fantasy, by Judith A. John
• Autogeddon Meets Archetype: Ballard's Novel Crash-The Collision Between the Dream Image and the Totem Object in the Death of Princess Diana, by Joan Bridgman
• The Spacecraft of Pablo Neruda and W. H. Auden , by Leonard A. Cheever
• Index
• About the Contributors