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title	:	The End of the World Alternatives
author	:	Rabkin, Eric S.; Greenberg, Martin Harry.; Olander, Joseph D.
publisher	:	Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0809310333
print isbn13	:	9780809310333
ebook isbn13	:	9780585186405
language	:	English
subject	Science fiction--History and criticism, End of the world in literature.
publication date	:	1983
lcc	:	PN3433.6.E6 1983eb
ddc	:	809.3/876
subject	:	Science fiction--History and criticism, End of the world in literature.

Page ii is a series under the general editorship of Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander which has been established to serve the growing critical audience of science fiction, fantastic fiction, and speculative fiction. Other titles in this series are: Bridges to Science Fiction, edited by George E. Slusser, George R. Guffey, and Mark Rose, 1980 The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton, edited by Barry N. Malzberg and Martin H. Greenberg, 1980 Fantastic Lives: Autobiographical Essays by Notable Science Fiction Writers, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, 1981 Astounding Science Fiction: July 1939, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, 1981 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: April 1965, edited by Edward L. Ferman, 1981 The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich, edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, 1981 The Best Science Fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle, edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, 1981 Bridges to Fantasy, edited by George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, and Robert Scholes, 1982 Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, and Robert Scholes, 1983. No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction, edited by Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, 1983.

Page iii The End of the World Edited by Eric S. Rabkin Martin H. Greenberg Joseph D. Olander Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale and Edwardsville

Page iv Copyright 1983 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Production supervised by John DeBacher Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: The End of the world. (Alternatives) Bibliography: p. Includes index. Contents: Introduction / Eric S. RabkinThe remaking of zero / Gray K. WolfeThe lone survivor / Robert Plank[etc.] 1. Science fictionHistory and criticism Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. End of the world in literatureAddresses, essays, lectures. I. Rabkin, Eric S. II. Greenberg, Martin Harry. III. Olander, Joseph D. IV. Series. PN3433.6.E6 1983 809.3'876 82-19365 ISBN 0-8093-1033-3 86 85 84 83 4 3 2 1

Page v Contents Introduction: Why Destroy the World? Eric S. Rabkin vii 1. The Remaking of Zero: Beginning at the End Gary K. Wolfe 1 2. The Lone Survivor Robert Plank 20 3. Ambiguous Apocalypse: Transcendental Versions of the End Robert Galbreath 53 4. Round Trips to Doomsday W. Warren Wagar 73 5. Man-Made Catastrophes Brian Stableford 97 6. The Rebellion of Nature W. Warren Wagar 139 Notes 175 Selected Bibliography 187 Index 191

Page vii Introduction: Why Destroy the World? Eric S. Rabkin "This is the way the world ends," T. S. Eliot wrote in "The Hollow Men" (1925), "not with a bang but a whimper." But modern science fiction has it both ways: in one story worlds collide, in the next the degenerate remnants of humanity huddle in a cave. We are driven from our world by our exploding sun or killed upon our world by mutated monsters of both the gigantic and microscopic sorts. Aliens intervene to wipe us out or transform us into their livestock. Even in the blessed cases in which the real estate is neither disinfected nor thoroughly atomized, "the world as we know it'' seems doomed. This is, of course, no better than we deserve: we who have sown the world with technologies that fairly seduce us into Armageddon should expect to reap the worldwind. The modern popular literature of the end of the world continues humanity's permanent questioning of its place and its permanent quest for a reason to exist. We forever reimagine the pilgrimage in and out of history, seeking the well at the world's end, to drink the knowledge the gods withheld from Adam.

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