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Celebrating the Fantastic - This "Enormous and Seductive Subject",Donald E. Morse. Part 1 Theory: Victorian and Modern fantasy - SomeContrasts, Colin Manlove (The International Association for the Fantastic inthe Arts Distringuished Scholar Address of 1989); The Greatest Fantasy onEarth - the Superweapon in Fiction and Fact, H. Bruce Franklin; PaganSurvival - Why the Shaman in Modern Fantasy?, Roger C. Schlobin; SomeThoughts on Modernism and Science Fiction (Suggested by Robert Silverberg's"Downward to the Earth"), Robert Latham; Godmaking in the Heartland -Cultural Texts in the Tales of Alvin Maker, Brian Attebery. Part 2 Myth andLegend: What Dreams May Come?" Relativity of Perception in Doris Lessing's"Briefing For a Descent into Hell", Peter Malekin; Kipling's Myth of Making -Creation and Contradiction in Puck of Pook's Hill", Jack G. Voller; MithraicAspects of Merlin in Mary Stewart's "The Crystal Cave", Marilyn Jurich;Dolorous Strokes, Or, Balin at the Bat - Malamud, Malory and Chretien, JohnKimsey; Autobiography as Science Fiction - The Strange Case of Loren Eiseley,Gale E. Christianson. Part 3 Supernatural: "The Fifth Child" - Lessing'sSubversion of the Pastoral, Ellen Pifer; The Ghost and the Self - theSupernatural Fiction of Henry James, Leonard Heldreth; Toni Morrison's"Beloved" - Rememory, History, and the Fantastic, Gary W. Daily. Part 4Visual Arts - Painting, Film, and Television: Csontvary - The Painter of theSun's Path", Csilla Bertha; Eros and Thanatos - The Art of Alfred Kublin onthe Edge of the Other side, Barbara Alexander-Schaechtelin; Fantasy Accordingto "Mister Roger's Neighborhood in the Night Kitchen", C.W. Sullivan III;Virtual Space and Its Boundaries in Science Fiction Film and Television -TRON, MAX HEADROOM, and WARGAMES, Judith B. Kerman; Giving the Devil Morethan His Due - "The Witches Of Eastwick as Fiction and Film, KennethJurkiewicz; the Monomyth in Time Travel Films, Donald Palumbo. Part 5 ScienceFiction; Astronauts, Angels, and Time Machines - The Fantastic in GermanDemocratic Republic Literature, Barbara Mabee; Legitimate Sequels - CharacterStructures and the Subject in Greg Bear's Sequel Novels, Len Hatfield; JoeHalderman - Cyberpunk Before Cyberpunk Was Cool?, Joan Gordon; Fantasy andHorror; Feminist Fantasy and Open Structure in Monique Wittiq's "LESGUERILLERES", Laurence M. Porter; Art Versus Madness in Stephen King's"MISERY", Tony Magistrale; Ray Bradbury, Herman Melville, and 19th centuryAmerican Romance, Steven E. Kagle.