Playing the Universe: Games and Gaming in Science Fiction

Contents:

LITERATURE:

1. Sports, Games and Play in Jack Vance's Science and Fantasy Fiction: David Mead; 2. The Mad Play of Robert J. Sawyer as Seen in Summer 2005: Donald M. Hassler; 3. SF Plays Dice with the Universe: Investigating the Rules of the Game in Science and SF: Oscar De Los Santos and Tom Morrissey; 4. Strategy in Philip K. Dick's "The Game-Players of Titan": Competing in the Rigged Game: Robert O'Connor; 5. Beyond Make-Believe: Play in the SF of lain (M.) Banks: Gavin Miller; 6. Sports Satire in Walter R. Brooks's Freddy the Pig Novels: Randy Clark; 7. Quidditch: J.K. Rowling's Leveler: D. Bruno Starrs; 8. Our Game: Virtual Communities and Civilized Play in Melissa Scott's "Burning Bright": Tim Bryant; 9. "The Game Is Everything": Collaborative Play with Global Consequences in "Ender's Game": Cathlena Martin;

FILM:

10. Playing Hard to Get: Game-Playing and the Search for Humanity in "Star Trek" and "Red Dwarf": Rebecca Janicker and Lincoln Geraghty; 11. Returning to the Coliseum: SF Visions of Future Sports: Fred Mason; 12. Sports, Repetition, and Control in Shane Carruth's "Primer": Jonathan Goodwin;

GAMING:

13. Inaesthetia: SF and Computer Games: David Boreham; 14. Literary and Rhetorical Analysis of Role-Playing Game Supplements: Mark Gellis; 15. Speculations on the Emergence of a Cultural Practice: Laurie Johnson; 16. The Use of Side Games in the "Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic" Video Game Series: Michael Carlson Kapper; 17. From Faerie Tale to Adventure Game: Michael Nitsche;

INTERMEDIA:

18. First Person Plural. "Ender's Game", "Broken Angels", and Video Game Subjectivity: Loren Eason; 19. Resident Franchise: Theorizing the SF Genre, Conglomerations, and the Future of Synergy: Jean Lauer and Rochelle Rodrigo