Contributors and Their Entries (by contributor's surname) |
Patricia Altner |
Moon |
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Lou Anders |
Drugs, Individualism and Conformity, Religion, Babylon 5, Batman, Doctor Who |
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Nick Aires |
Apprentice, Castles, First Contact, Friendship, Labyrinth, Predictions, Treasure, Trickster,
Wizards, Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, Star Trek: Enterprise, The Sword of Shannaraby Terry Brooks |
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Sandy Antunes |
Temptress |
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Neal Baker |
Alphaville, The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, La Jetée |
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Elizabeth Barrette |
Colors, Flowers, Gods and Goddesses, Language and Linguistics, Witches |
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Russell Blackford |
Babies, Biology, Clones, Cycles, Death, Decadence, Far Future, Marriage,
Mutation, Nudity, Overpopulation, Technology, Mad Max,
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, The Terminator, Triton by Samuel R. Delany |
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Tim Blackmore |
Space War, Violence, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, Gateway
by Frederik Pohl, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein |
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Daniel E. Blackston |
Rivers |
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Jayme Blaschke |
Giants, Insects, Superman, City by Clifford D. Simak, Wonder Woman |
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Everett Bleiler |
Utopia by Thomas More |
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Richard Bleiler |
Evil, Mystery, Polar Regions, Sun, Taboos, Lilith by George MacDonald, Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny |
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Janice M. Bogstad |
China, Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey, Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, Startide Rising by David Brin |
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Mark Bould |
Economics, Brazil, The Brother from Another Planet, Dr. Strangelove, Forbidden Planet, Invaders
from Mars, Island of Lost Souls, The Thing (from Another World), Topper,
A Trip to the Moon, 2001: A Space Odyssey |
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Chantal Bourgault du Coudray |
Apes |
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Wendy Bousfield |
Dogs, Lions and Tigers, The Shining by Stephen King |
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Paul Brians |
Nuclear War, Post-Holocaust Societies, The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Charlene Brusso |
Espionage, Exile, Force, The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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Andrew M. Butler |
Comedy, Sexuality, Blade Runner, The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, The Drowned
World by J.G. Ballard, E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, Gal´pagos by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The Man in the High
Castle by Philip K. Dick, Metropolis, Total Recall |
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John Clute |
Urban Fantasy, The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe |
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Frank Coffman |
Swords |
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Brett Cooke |
Dystopia, Utopia, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, We by Yevgeny Zamiatin |
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Brett Cox |
Steampunk, Television and Radio, Writing and Authors, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes,
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, The X-Files |
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Jeff D'Anastasio |
Cyberspace, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson |
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Janis Dawson |
Rats and Mice |
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Charles DePaolo |
Plagues and Diseases, Prehistoric Fiction, The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel |
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Noreen Doyle |
Egypt |
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Stefan R. Dziemianowicz |
Halloween, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, The Outer
Limits, 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke |
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Neil Easterbrook |
Bildungsroman, Deus ex Machina, Estrangement, Ethics, Hubris, Identity, Landscape, Magic Realism, Personification,
Progress, Reading, Sublime, Threshold, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, Neuromancer
by William Gibson |
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Bob Eggleton |
Godzilla, King of the Monsters |
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Stefan Ekman |
Gold and Silver, Money |
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Alan C. Elms |
Metafiction and Recursiveness, Psychology, Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith |
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Gregory Feeley |
Shakespeare, Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift |
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Liz Fielden |
Mothers |
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Toiya K. Finley |
Arcadia, Lost Horizon by James Hilton |
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Mark Finn |
Jason and the Argonauts |
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Carl Freedman |
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville |
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Pawel Frelik |
Darkness, Fire, Islam, Maps, Music, Possession, Secret Identities |
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Lincoln Geraghty |
Native Americans, Westerns, Star Trek, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: The Motion Picture,
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager |
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Alan Gibbs |
Blake's 7 |
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Stephen P. Gillett |
Alien Worlds, Comets and Asteroids, Mercury, Venus |
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Alexander Graf |
A Clockwork Orange |
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Charles Gramlich |
Barbarians, Sword and Sorcery, A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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John Grant |
Perceptions, Technothrillers, Timeslips,
UFOs, Back to the Future, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Field of Dreams, The Invisible Man, The
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Wizard of Oz , The Years of Rice and
Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson |
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Glenn R. Gray |
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings |
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James Gunn |
Humanity, I, Robot by Isaac Asimov |
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Stefan Hall |
Androids, Japan, Futurama |
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Darren Harris-Fain |
Superheroes, Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison, Doctor No |
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Donald M. Hassler |
Evolution, Hard Science Fiction, Politics, Work and Leisure, Foundation by Isaac Asimov |
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K. Stoddard Hayes |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Farscape, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Xena: Warrior Princess |
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Roslynn D. Haynes |
Mad Scientists, Scientists, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Brave
New World by Aldous Huxley, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne |
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Elyce Rae Helford |
Feminism |
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Derek Hill |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Planet of the Apes |
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Kenneth Hite |
Demons |
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Veronica Hollinger |
Cyborgs, Postmodernism |
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James Craig Holte |
Vampires |
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Martin Horstkotte |
Detectives |
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Fred Jandt |
Light |
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Beverley Jansen |
Blood |
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Paula Johanson |
Gardens |
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Nancy Johnston |
Dolls and Puppets, Touch |
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Fiona Kelleghan |
Cats, Latin America, Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon, The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester |
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Tris Kerslake |
Exploration, Galactic Empire, Planetary Colonies, Terraforming |
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Leigh Kimmel |
Rebellion, Russia, Slavery |
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Paul Kincaid |
Alternate History, Cities, Clocks and Timepieces, Fin de Siécle,
Islands, Prisons, Time Travel, Underground Adventure, Lord of the Flies by William Golding,
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Maureen Kincaid Speller |
Unicorns, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, The Last Man by Mary Shelley |
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Rick Klaw |
Cyberpunk, King Kong |
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Jay Lake |
Advertising, Clowns and Fools |
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David Langford |
Adam and Eve, Antimatter, Black Holes, Caverns, Chess, Clichés,
Computers, Deserts, Elements, Food and Drink, Games, Golem, Gravity, Hollow
Earth, Humor, Hyperspace, Illusion, Invisibility, Mathematics, Omens and Signs,
Psychic Powers, Riddles, Robots, Space Opera, Symbiosis, Teleportation, Torture,
Toys, Uplift, Villains, Yin and Yang, Zombies, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by
Lewis Carroll, Blood Music by Greg Bear, Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, The Colour of
Magic by Terry Pratchett, Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks,
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester, Helliconia Spring by Brian W. Aldiss,
Hospital Station by James White, Little, Big by John Crowley, The Prisoner,
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony, Triplanetary by
E. E. "Doc" Smith, A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Robert Latham |
Communication, Messiahs, Paranoia |
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Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell |
The Day the Earth Stood Still, Frankenstein,
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Man Who Fell to Earth |
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Marissa Lingen |
Dimensions, Nuclear Power, Physics, Sea Travel, Underwater Adventure |
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James Lowder |
Shared Worlds |
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Lynne Lundquist |
Amazons, Speed, Theatre, Weather, The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper, Peter and
Wendy by J. M. Barrie, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum |
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Brad Lyau |
Europe |
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Christine Mains |
Books, Borderlands, Cemeteries, Disguise, Elves, Knowledge, Love, Magic, Memory, Mentors, Mirrors, Stories, Wisdom, Stargate |
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Tom Marcinko |
Beauty, Flying |
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Richard McKinney |
Astronauts, Cosmology, Crime and Punishment, Ecology, Genetic Engineering, Inventions, Jupiter and the Outer
Planets, Nature, Pantropy, Space Habitats, Stars, Space Stations, Wilderness |
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Ed McKnight |
Arthur, History, Philosophy, Satire, Secret History, Heaven Can Wait, It's a Wonderful Life |
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Joe Milicia |
South Pacific |
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Dunja M. Mohr |
Machines and Mechanization, Postcolonialism, Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy |
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Derryl Murphy |
Water |
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Ian Nichols |
Apocalypse, Australia, Education, Survival, Alien, Dune by Frank Herbert |
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Terry O'Brien |
Hypnotism |
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Shannan Palma |
Queens |
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John S. Partington |
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells, Things to Come, The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
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Wendy Pearson |
Androgyny, Family, Gender, Home, Homosexuality, Race Relations, The Female Man by Joanna Russ,
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Michael Penncavage |
Pirates |
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Jefferson M. Peters |
Art |
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A. William Pett |
Dinosaurs, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain |
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Frances Pheasant-Kelly |
Forests, Rebirth, Rituals |
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Kathleen Church Plummer |
Architecture and Interior Design, Fashion |
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Don Riggs |
Divination, Frankenstein Monsters |
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Chris Roberson |
Parallel Worlds |
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Adam Roberts |
Air Travel |
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Stephen D. Rogers |
Promise |
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Michael Saler |
Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright |
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Karen Sands-O'Connor |
Children, Medievalism and the Middle Ages, Mary Poppins
by P. L. Travers, The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting, The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley |
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Andy Sawyer |
Anxiety, Disaster, Elder Races, Flood, Last Man, Libraries, Magical Objects, Pastoral,
Rings, Sense of Wonder, Time, Virtual Reality, The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, Earth Abides by George R. Stewart, Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, Stand on
Zanzibar by John Brunner, The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison |
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Sandra Martina Schwab |
Dragons, The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle |
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Darrell Schweitzer |
Atlantis, Generation Starship, Ghosts and Hauntings,
Heroic Fantasy, Horror, Imaginary Worlds, Kings, Lost Worlds, Quests, A.I., Beauty and the Beast, Bring
the Jubilee by Ward Moore, A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr., Conan the Conqueror by Robert E. Howard,
Dracula, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley, Jurgen by James Branch Cabell, The King of Elfland's
Daughter by Lord Dunsany, The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle, She
by H. Rider Haggard, Solaris, Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake, A Voyage
to Arcturus by David Lindsay |
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Joyce Scrivner |
Angels, Guilt and Responsibility, Madness, Names |
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Laura Scuriatti |
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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Michael Sharp |
Revenge, The Simpsons |
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Bruce Shaw |
Fables |
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Nisi Shawl |
Voodoo |
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Theodore J. Sherman |
Allegory, Christianity, Escape, Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling, The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis, Star Wars |
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MJ Simpson |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Quatermass Experiment |
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Alison Sinclair |
Pain, Parasites |
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George Slusser |
Eternity, Space Travel, Suspended Animation and Cryonics |
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Kevin P. Smith |
Fairy Tales, Red Dwarf |
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Lucy A. Snyder |
Asia, Birds, Curses, Dark Fantasy, Future War, Intelligence, Miniaturization, Plants |
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David Soyka |
Business, Trade
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C. W. Sullivan III |
Mythology, The Owl Service by Alan Garner |
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Eva Tettenborn |
Dawn by Octavia E. Butler |
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William Thompson |
Dwarfs, Fairies, Goblins, Taverns and Inns, Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson, The Matrix |
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Trent Walters |
Snakes and Worms |
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Batya Weinbaum |
Sexism |
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Gary Westfahl |
Aliens in Space, Aliens on Earth, America, Automobiles, Betrayal, Birth, Carnival, Chivalry, Christmas, Community,
Courage, Culture, Destiny, Doppelganger, Earth, Enlargement, Eschatology, Farms,
Fathers, Fish and Sea Creatures, Freedom, Frontier, Gothic, Governance Systems,
Habitats, Heaven, Hell, Heroes, Hive Minds, Horses, Illustration and Graphics, Immortality
and Longevity, Invasion, Journalism, Judaism, Jungles, Mars, Medicine,
Microcosm, Monsters, Mountains, Near Future, Old Age, Optimism and Pessimism, Poetry, Puzzles, Reincarnation, Rockets, Role
Reversals, Romance, Ruritarian Romance, Sacrifice, Satan,
Seasons, Sin, Skeletons, Social Darwinism, Sports, Statues, Suicide, Supernatural
Creatures, Surrealism, Talents, Theft, Tragedy, Transportation, Virginity, Vision
and Blindness, War, Weaponry, Xenophobia, Youth, Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott, Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler, Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, The Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe, The Past Through Tomorrow
by Robert A. Heinlein, The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel, The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and
C. M. Kornbluth, Superman, Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Twilight Zone |
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David Wilson |
Absurdity |
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Gina Wisker |
Mermaids, Shapeshifters, Werewolves, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice |
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer |
Africa, Anthropology, Civilization, Class System, Dreams, Gifts, Globalization, Sleep, Hyperion by Dan Simmons |
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Martin Morse Wooster |
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon, Timescape by Gregory Benford |
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Cat Yampell |
Animals and Zoos, Metamorphosis, Talking Animals |
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