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A History of the Eaton Volumes and Volumes from Related Conferences, 1979-2003
(Note:
due to circumstances not of my choosing, I am no longer involved in any
activities related to the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and
Fantasy Literature, housed in the Tómas Rivera Library of the
University of California, Riverside; for current information about the Collection and its
activities, please use this
link. However, I offer the following history to
commemorate my many years of involvement with the Eaton Conferences as a guest,
speaker, coordinator, and volume co-editor.)
In its first incarnation, there were twenty
J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, from 1979
to 1999, and all twenty of these produced Eaton volumes. There have also been a
number of Eaton-related volumes produced by conferences that were not official
Eaton Conferences; however, these conferences were all co-sponsored by the
University of California, Riverside, and co-coordinated by George Slusser or
(in two instances) by Gary Westfahl, so these volumes are sometimes regarded as
Eaton volumes. The chart below lists the first twenty Eaton volumes and all
Eaton-related volumes, arranged in chronological order according to the date of
the conference that produced the volume. Official Eaton volumes are preceded by
"Eaton" and the number of the conference.
The titles of each Eaton Conference were
usually similar or identical to the volume titles, with these exceptions:
the 1994 Eaton Conference was entitled Science Fiction in the Contests
for Authority; the 1996 Eaton Conference was entitled The World, the Flesh, and
the Doctor; and the title Worlds Enough and Time was employed as the umbrella
title for both the Eaton track (Time) and the SFRA track (Space) of the 1997
joint SFRA/Eaton Conference, and the title Space and Beyond was created
later for the volume taken from the SFRA track. I also recall that the 1984
conferences had somewhat different titles, specifically referencing George
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, but I did not attend either conference
and have been unable to verify their titles. Also, with the exception of the
1989 cyberpunk conference, I believe that the related conferences
co-coordinated by George Slusser had somewhat different titles, but with one
exception, I did not attend those conferences and hence cannot be sure about
their titles. (The one I attended, the 1990 College Station Conference, was
entitled, I believe, the Fantastic Imagination in New Critical Theories.) The
two related conferences that I co-coordinated were entitled Hong Kong 2001:
Technology, Identity, and Futurity, East and West, in the Emerging Global
Village and Hong Kong 2003: Technoculture, Material
Science, and Everyday Life.
Another volume sometimes associated with the
Eaton Conferences, the 2003 anthology Genre at the Crossroads: The Challenge
of Fantasy: A Collection of Essays, ed. Slusser and Jean-Pierre
Barricelli (Riverside, California: Xenos Press, 2003), actually consisted
mainly of essays originally assembled in 1988 for the first issue of a
projected new journal, Fantasy Studies, which never appeared. There was
no conference associated with the project. Also, a collection of Eaton
Conference essays by Frank McConnell, The Science of Fiction and the Fiction
of Science: Storytelling, Science Fiction, and the Gnostic Imagination, was
published by McFarland Publishers in 2009; its Table of Contents is available
at this
link.
Beginning in 2005, there have been four
additional Eaton Conferences, which have produced at least one additional Eaton
volume, and there are presumably plans for future conferences; however, since I
did not attend these conferences and was not involved in their activities, it
now seems appropriate to have someone else chronicle these events.
| Volume Title |
Year of Conference |
Eaton 1. Bridges to Science Fiction,
ed. George Slusser, George E. Guffey, and Mark Rose (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980) |
1979 |
Eaton 2. Bridges to Fantasy,
ed. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, and Robert Scholes (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982) |
1980 |
Eaton 3. Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy,
ed. Slusser, Rabkin, and Scholes (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983) |
1981 |
Eaton 4. Shadows of the Magic Lamp: Fantasy and Science Fiction in Film,
ed. Slusser and Rabkin (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985) |
1982 |
Eaton 5. Hard Science Fiction,
ed. Slusser and Rabkin (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980) |
1983 |
Eaton 6. Storm Warnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future,
ed. Slusser, Colin Greenland, and Rabkin (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987)
(two conferences, in Riverside and in England) |
1984 |
Eaton 7. Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction,
ed. Slusser and Rabkin (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987) |
1985 |
Eaton 8. Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction,
ed. Slusser and Rabkin (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987) |
1986 |
Eaton 9. Mindscapes: The Geographies of Imagined Worlds,
ed. Slusser and Rabkin (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988)
(includes Westfahl essay) |
1987 |
Eaton 10. Fights of Fancy: Armed Conflict in Science Fiction and Fantasy,
ed. Slusser and Rabkin (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993)
(includes Westfahl essay) |
1988 |
Eaton 11. Styles of Creation: Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds,
ed. Slusser and Rabkin (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992)
(includes Westfahl essay) |
1989 |
Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative,
ed. Slusser and Tom Shippey (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992)
(conference in Leeds, England, co-coordinated by George Slusser, not an official Eaton conference)
(includes Westfahl essay) |
1989 |
Eaton 12. Science Fiction and Market Realities,
ed. Gary Westfahl, Slusser, and Rabkin (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996)
(includes Westfahl introduction and essay) |
1990 |
The Fantastic Other: An Interface of Perspectives,
ed. Brett Cooke, Slusser, and Jaume Marti-Olivella (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 1998)
(conference in College Station, Texas, co-coordinated by George Slusser, not an official Eaton Conference)
(includes Westfahl essay) |
1990 |
Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts,
ed. Cooke and Frederick Turner (Lexington, Kentucky: ICUS, 1999)
(includes additional papers from the College Station conference)
(includes Westfahl essay) |
1990 |
Eaton 13. Foods of the Gods: Eating and the Eaton in Fantasy and Science Fiction,
ed. Westfahl, Slusser, and Rabkin (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996)
(includes Westfahl essay) |
1991 |
Transformations of Utopia: Changing Views of the Perfect Society,
ed. Slusser, Paul Alkon, Roger Galliard, and Danièle Chatelain (New York: AMS Press, 1999)
(conference in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, co-coordinated by George Slusser, not an official Eaton conference)
(includes Westfahl essay) |
1991 |
Eaton 14. Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy,
ed. Slusser, Westfahl, and Rabkin (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996)
(includes Westfahl essay) |
1992 |
Eaton 15. Nursery Realms: Children in the Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror,
ed. Westfahl and Slusser (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999)
(includes Westfahl introduction and co-authored essay) |
1993 |
Eaton 16. Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy,
ed. Westfahl and Slusser (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002)
(includes Westfahl introduction; Westfahl conference paper, published elsewhere, is available at this link)
|
1994 |
Eaton 17. Unearthly Visions: Approaches to Science Fiction and Fantasy Art,
ed. Westfahl, Slusser, and Kathleen Church Plummer (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002)
(includes two Westfahl essays) |
1995 |
H.G. Wells's Perennial Time Machine: Selected Essays from the Centenary Conference "The Time Machine: Past, Present, and Future," Imperial College, London, July 26-29, 1995,
ed. Slusser, Patrick Parrinder, and Chatelain (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001)
(conference in London, England, co-coordinated by George Slusser, not an official Eaton Conference) |
1995 |
Eaton 18. No Cure for the Future: Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy,
ed. Westfahl and Slusser (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002)
(includes Westfahl introduction and essay) |
1996 |
Eaton 19. Worlds Enough and Time: Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy,
ed. Westfahl, Slusser, and David Leiby (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002)
(Eaton track of joint SFRA/Eaton Conference, Long Beach, California)
(includes Westfahl introduction) |
1997 |
Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction,
ed. Westfahl (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000)
(SFRA track of joint SFRA/Eaton Conference, Long Beach, California, not officially part of that year's Eaton conference)
(includes Westfahl introduction and essay) |
1997 |
Eaton 20. Science Fiction and the Two Cultures,
ed. Westfahl and Slusser (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishers, 2009)
(includes Westfahl introduction and two Westfahl essays, one previously
published; Westfahl conference paper, never published, available at this link)
|
1999 |
World Weavers: Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution,
ed. Wong Kin Yuen, Westfahl, and Amy Kit-sze Chan (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005)
(conference in Hong Kong, co-coordinated by Gary Westfahl, not an official Eaton conference)
(includes Westfahl introduction and essay) |
2001 |
Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future, ed. Westfahl, Wong Kin Yuen,
and Amy Kit-sze Chan (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishers, 2011)
(includes Westfahl introduction and two Westfahl essays, one previously published)
[conference in Hong Kong co-coordinated by Gary Westfahl, not an official Eaton conference] |
2003 |
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