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“Life, the Universe & Everything:

The Marion K. “Doc” Smith Symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy.”

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Below is a list of the contests of the available proceedings volumes.

Deep Thoughts

Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XI, February 10–13, 1993

Edited by Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer

Contents

Acknowledgments v

Contributors vii–ix

Introduction

Marny K. Parkin, Editor xi–xii

The Distance to the Future: Reworking and Temporally Inverting
Bakhtin’s “Novel and Epic”

Brian Evenson, University of Washington1–21

Thresholds of Recognition and Dismay: Portrayals of the
Feminine Other in Two Nineteenth-Century Works of Symbolic Fantasy

Lisa Stapleton Melanson, University of Massachusetts–Amherst 23–36

The Popcorn Theory of Success

Kevin J. Anderson, Guest of Honor 37–53

Spin Doctor and Early Post-feminist: Marion Zimmer Bradley

Jane Thompson, Mount Mary College 55–65

The Wayward Automaton: Reconstructing Identity

Phillip Johansen, Cornell University 67–77

Where I Get My Ideas

Barbara Hambly, Guest of Honor79–92

Where No Woman Has Gone Before:
A Sociolinguistic Study of Gender Roles in Star Trek

Jennifer Rey, Brigham Young University 93–105

Science Fiction as the Classroom Text: Teaching Alternate Worlds

Jane Thompson, Mount Mary College 107–50

Symbolic Action in Beowulf:
Using Kenneth Burke’s Pentad to Understand Beowulf’s Motives

Gary Layne Hatch, Brigham Young University 151–69

The Book of Mormon: Artifact or Artifice?

Orson Scott Card, Guest of Honor 171–206

Zelazny’s Merlin and the Wheel of Life

Norman Peercy, University of Northern Colorado  209–15

Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XII, February 16–19, 1994

Edited by Steve Setzer and Marny K. Parkin

Contents

Acknowledgements   v

Contributors   vii–viii

Introduction

Steve Setzer, Editor   ix–x

Psycho-literary Devices in Zelazny’s Madwand

Norman Peercy, University of Northern Colorado  1–13

When Science Writes the Fiction

Robert L. Forward, Guest of Honor15–31

Science Fiction and the Marvelous: Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun and
Roger Zelazny’s This Immortal

Jonathan Langford, University of California–Riverside 35–58

Breaking the Rules without Knowing It

Katherine Kurtz, Guest of Honor   59–77

Twenty-First Space Propulsion

Robert L. Forward, Guest of Honor  70–112

“When It Comes, It’s Wonderful”: Art versus Craft in Writing

Roger Zelazny, Guest of Honor113–29

Organizational Devices in the Darkover Novels

Norman Peercy, University of Colorado–Boulder 131–41

Proceedings of Life the Universe, & Everything XIII, February 1–4, 1995

Edited by Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer

Contents

Acknowledgements iv

Contributors v–vi

“And on His Crest Sat Horror Plum’d”: Some Elements of Fantasy,
Science Fiction, and the Horror in Paradise Lost

Michael R. Collings, Pepperdine University 7–24

Deconstructing Landscapes

Patricia A. McKellip, Guest of Honor 25–33

Why Companions Scream:  Gender in Dr. Who

Tony Whitt, Louisiana State University 35–53

Allegories of Change

Lois McMaster Bujold, Guest of Honor 55–67

The Price of Knowledge in Patricia McKellip’s Riddle-Master Trilogy

Nancy Lynn Hayes, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory 69–87

Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XIV, January 31–February 3, 1996

Edited by Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer

Contents

Acknowledgmentsv

Contributorsvii–viii

Nobody Here Still But Us Orcs . . . :
An Incomplete History of Life, the Universe, & (Mostly) Everything

Lee Allred, Chairix–xiii

The Problem of Portraying Good in Fiction

Dave Wolverton, Guest of Honor 1–15

Mistakes, Misreadings, and Attitudes

Patricia C. Wrede, Guest of Honor 17–23

Writing the Fantastic and Religion:
Some Ruminations on the Role of Poetry

Michael R. Collings, Pepperdine University25–41

Saints and Scientists

Richard T. Wooton, Arizona State University 43–52

On Moral Fiction: The Gardnerian Ideal and the Mormon Poetic

Lee Allred53–73

Jefferson, Whiggery, and the Nature of Good
in American Science Fiction and Fantasy

Steve Setzer, Brigham Young University75–82

Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XV, February 27–March 1, 1997

Edited by Steve Setzer and Marny K. Parkin

Contents

Acknowledgements v

Contributors vii–x

Introduction

Steve Stezer xi

Bonding with the Aliens Saves the Day

Judith Moffet, Guest of Honor 1–17

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Orson Scott Card

Eugene England, Utah Valley State College 19–41

An Instance of Seventeenth-Century Science Fiction,
Or Magaret Cavendish’s Blazing World and the Emancipation of Imagination

Dr. Brandie R. Siegfried, Brigham Young University 43–61

The Mists of Avalon: The Use of Polarity in Elevating Women’s Roles

Dr. Norman Peercy, University of Colorado—Greeley63–73

Hypothetical Intelligent Plants, Or What Kind of Terminal Could a Tulip Use?

Dr. Paul E. Black, Brigham Young University75–86

Lead Us Not into Redemption

Nancy Lynn Hayes, Idaho National Engineering and
Environmental Laboratory87–113

What Do We Need Monsters For?

Dr. Edward B Irving Jr., University of Pennsylvania
(prof. emeritus) 115–29

Orson Scott Card: An Approach to Mythopoeic Fiction

Dr. Michael R. Collings, Pepperdine University 131–56

Abstracts

The Use of Mythic and Fantastic in Cynthia Ozick’s Fiction

Batia Boe Stolar, Concordia University 157–58

The Boston Twenty-Four-Hour Science Fiction Film Marathon: 
Like Woodstock Only Indoors and without the Music

Sophie Glazier, Indiana University/Perdue University at Fort Wayne 159–60

The Great Goddess and Aspects of Fate

Brian Lackey, Indiana University/Perdue University at Fort Wayne160

Proceedings of Life the Universe & Everything XVI, March 12–14, 1998

Edited by Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer

Contents

Acknowledgements v

Contributors vii–ix

On Imagination and Faith

Dr. Van C. Gessel, Brigham Young University 1–5

Creating old Favorites:  What Makes A Classic? 
Thoughts on How We Create Memorable Fiction

Sherwood Smith, Guest of Honor 7–19

Why (I Hope That) the Nazi Fascination with Norse Myth Was a Poor Fit

Sandra Ballif Straubhaar, Brigham Young University 21–30

One Brief, Shining Moment:  Camelot, Arthur, and Nauvoo

Lee Allred 31–37

Sensing the Alien Mind:  Sensory Processing and the Concept of the Alien

Elizabeth Moon, Guest of Honor 39–58

The Use of the Mythic and the Fantastic in Cynthia Ozick’s Fiction

Batia Boe Stolar, Concordia University 59–80

Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XVII, March 11–13, 1999

Edited by Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer

Contents

Acknowledgmentsv

Contributorsvii

The “Death” of Science Fiction (?)
Kevin J. Anderson1–7

Mystic Ritual in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Tombs of Atuan
Dr. Zina Petersen9–20

Golems and Dybbuks:
The Supernatural in Yiddish Cultural History
Dr. Paul E. Kerry21–26

Consider the Source
Rebecca Moesta27–40

Old English Eligiac Imagry in
The Wanderer and J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Miranda Wilcox41–68

Hidden Knowledge:
Motivating Self-Study and Education through
Science Fiction Role-Playing Games
Marcus Wilkinson69–86

The Shadow Matrix: Archetypes Galore
Dr. Norman Peercy87–104