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