Unearthly Visions

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Gary Westfahl is adjunct professor at the University of La Verne, CA. His previous books include No Cure for the Future (2002), Unearthly Visions (2002), Worlds Enough and Time (2002), Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy (2002), Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture (2000), Space and Beyond (2000), and Cosmic Engineers (1996), all available from Greenwood Press. George Slusser is professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside. He has written several books about science fiction authors and coedited numerous scholarly studies. Kathleen Church Plummer is lecturer in design at the University of California, Davis. She teaches courses on the decorative arts and interiors while also working and exhibiting as an artist in watercolor, collage, and printmaking.

Introduction: The Iconology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art by George Slusser Approaches to Science Fiction Art Artists in Wonderland: Toward a True History of Science Fiction Art by Gary Westfahl The Northrop Continuum: Science Fiction Illustration and the Flying Wing Aircraft by Howard V. Hendrix Less is More: Empty Space, Invisibility, and Modern Design by Kathleen Church Plummer "Getting It Right": A Reflection on Titans and Technologies by Gregory Benford The Vision of Space: The Artist's View by Samuel Vasbinder Shapes from the Edge of Time: The Science Fiction Artwork of Richard M. Powers by Kirk Hampton and Carol MacKay Approaches to Fantasy Art Notes on the Geography of Bad--and Good--Fantasy Art by John Clute Archaeological Fieldwork in the Paper Tiger Stacks Report #43: A Short Happy History of Fantasy Art by John Grant Wisdom and Clemency: The Collaborations of Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd by Lynne Lundquist and Gary Westfahl "And What Happened After": How J.R.R. Tolkien Visualized, and Other Artists Re-Visualized, the Denizens of Middle-earth by Beatrix Karthaus-Hunt Conan the Oxymoron: The Civilized Savage of Robert E. Howard and Frank Frazetta by David Hinckley Bibliography Index