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The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination by Frank McConnell, edited by Gary Westfahl, with a Foreword by Neil Gaiman, and Comments by Paul Alkon, Gregory Benford, Harold Bloom, Sheila Finch, Carl Freedman, Howard V. Hendrix, Bruce Kawin, Joseph D. Miller, Eric S. Rabkin, Mark Rose, and George Slusser.

The Frank McConnell book is now available from McFarland Publishers! Here's a link to the publisher's information about the book, and the Table of Contents is below.

Table of Contents
Foreword by Neil Gaiman
Introduction by Gary Westfahl
Acknowledgments
I. Frank McConnell B.C.E. (Before Coming to Eaton)
1. Born in Fire: The Ontology of the Monster
2. Song of Innocence: The Creature from the Black Lagoon
3. H. G. Wells: Utopia and Doomsday
4. Realist of the Fantastic: H. G. Wells about/in/on the Movies
II. Slouching Toward Bedlam: The Early Eaton Essays
5. Sturgeon's Law: First Corollary
6. Boring Dates: Reflections on the Apocalypse Game
7. Frames in Search of a Genre
8. From Astarte to Barbie and Beyond: The Serious History of Dolls
9. The Playing Fields of Eden
10. It's Only a Paper Moon: Fantasy and the Professors
11. "Turn That Shit Down!" Or, How to Market an Underground
III: Gnostic Lunch: The Later Eaton Essays
12. Alimentary, My Dear Watson: Food and Eating in Scientific and Mystery Fiction
13. You Bet Your Life: Death and the Storyteller
14. Seven Types of Chopped Liver: My Adventures in the Genre Wars
15. The Missionary Physician, from Asclepius to Kervorkian
16. The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: A Storytelling Animal in an Inhospitable World
 
Epilogue: Memories of Frank by Paul Alkon, Gregory Benford, Harold Bloom, Sheila Finch, Carl Freedman, Howard V. Hendrix, Bruce Kawin, Joseph D. Miller, Eric S. Rabkin, Mark Rose, and George Slusser
 
A Bibliography of the Works of Frank McConnell
 
A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Works Cited in the Text
 
Index

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